Response from Mrs. Janet Waugh – District 1 – Received 6/25/05

From: JWaugh1052@[xxxxxxx]
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Jun 25, 2005 6:34 AM
Subject: Response from a member of the Kansas Board of Education

Thanks for your comments about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the supporters who have sent their support to members of the Kansas Board of Education. I am supporting the recommendations of the science committee and am currently in the minority. I think your theory is wonderful and possibly some of the majority members will be willing to support it.

Thanks again,

Janet Waugh District 1

Response from Mrs. Sue Gamble – District 2 – Received 6/26/05

From: msgamble@[xxxxxxxxx]
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Jun 26, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Reply

Dear Mr. Henderson, Thanks for your message. Thanks for the laugh. Your web site is fascinating. I will add your theory to a long list of alternative theories I intend to introduce when it is appropriate. I am practicing how to do this with a straight face which is difficult since it’s such a ridiculous subject; it is also very sad that we are even having the discussion.

I will be one of the four member minority who will be voting against the flawed science standards currently being proposed by the six member majority.

Sincerely,

Sue Gamble

Response from Mrs. Carol Rupe – District 8 – Received 8/16/05

From: Carol Rupe
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Aug 16, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Kansas State Board of Education

Dear Mr. Henderson,

In the midst of the sad circumstances of having our science standards lowered, you and your legion of fellow FSM followers have offered wonderful comic relief. Rather than the form letters which we often receive on other topics, each FSM letter has been clever and unique. I responded to several at first, but now there have just been too many. I am a member of the Kansas State Board of Education and have voted repeatedly to maintain excellent science standards. Last week was the vote to send a new draft (written by the 6 conservative members) out for external review. The four of us on the board who are moderates were in the minority on the vote. The group of science teachers and university professors who had written the original standards (before they were changed) have now asked that their names be withdrawn from the document. The new version changes the very definition of science from “seeking natural explanations” to “seeking logical explanations”. That is why I think FSMism is able to be included. It is as “logical” as any other theory.

The final vote on the standards will be in October. We will be in Lawrence, Kansas for that meeting. Those of us who are moderates on the board are trying to have the meeting in the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. We think that would be an appropriate setting for the occasion. We welcome you to be in attendance.

We have received thousands of emails from scientists around the world. At first, they all tried to explain good science to us. After the vote last week, however, they have resorted to calling us hillbillies and morons. And those are the nice letters!

Thank you for adding levity to this situation. You have developed quite a following. I was wondering if we could reverse the effects of global warming if we started breeding pirates.

Sincerely,
Carol Rupe

P.S. I ordered a Kansas Museum of Science t-shirt. I may just have to wear it to a board meeting.

From: Mrs. Kathy Martin, District 6

“It is a serious offense to mock God.”

1467 Responses to “Kansas School Board Responses to the Open Letter”

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  1. 1451 - antoncap - Dec 24th, 2009

    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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  2. 1452 - Sioux_zq - Dec 25th, 2009
    I am from The Colony Texas and every year we celebrate Pirates day. I always wondered why, but now I know! I must live in a town full of Pastafarians! Praise be to He of the Noodly Appendage!! Aargh…

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  3. 1453 - Nick - Jan 4th, 2010
    Mrs. Kathy Martin, I would like clarification on who is seriously offended by mocking of god.

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  4. 1454 - Anon E. Mous - Jan 7th, 2010
    I laugh at Mrs. Kathy Martin’s response. The letter was not mocking God, but in fact presenting the one true God. In any case, I believe it is a very futile and somewhat hilarious attempt to try to stop propaganda, like one man going against the entire US Army, guns blazing.

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  5. 1455 - Anon E. Mous - Jan 7th, 2010

    By the way, “antoncap’s” comment is in Russian, specifically a translated advertisement for some “Moneytrain” thing. When I translated it to English in Google’s Language Tools’s translator from Russian to English, I nearly wet my pants from laughter after I found out it was a Russian add.

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  6. 1456 - XatHammer - Jan 14th, 2010
    “He who eats my noodles and drinks my marinara sauce, has eternal life, and I will raise him up after the last meal” Flying Spaghetti Monster 53:14
    I would like to discuss with the people, the controversy of this excerpt.
    Some argue that FSM uses “the last meal” metaphorically, and in actuality, he means dessert.
    Still others argue that they do not eat dessert, and thus the excerpt must be describing dinner.
    I would just like to remind you, the people of The Church of FSM, that there is no one way for the book of FSM to be read. It is meant to be adapted so to be true to every man, woman, or pirate’s lifestyle.
    Praise be to The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
    “Arrrh.”

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  7. 1457 - rakesh - Jan 16th, 2010

    Finally I got a really nice or we can say useful post. Thanks for sharing a lovely post.

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  8. 1458 - Dobromir Georgiev - Jan 18th, 2010
    if god is invisible how do we know he made us in his own image?

    invisible things do not have image

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  9. 1459 - sinema izle - Jan 20th, 2010

    but now I know! I must live in a town full of Pastafarians!

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  10. 1460 - TechIQ - Jan 25th, 2010

    You’ve written nice post, I am gonna bookmark this page, thanks for info.

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  11. 1461 - Ureno - Jan 25th, 2010

    You covered all in detail, bro.
    Thanks for posting this. Bookmarking your blog. :D

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  12. 1462 - sumit - Jan 26th, 2010

    Great and useful post, thanks for sharing.

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  13. 1463 - Peyton - Jan 31st, 2010

    I don’t want to juge but this is just ridiculous. You people seem to be in need of some psychiatric help! Come on, you’re not pirates or “Pastafarians” for gods sake, I cannot believe this is real

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  14. 1464 - Anonymous - Feb 3rd, 2010

    It is a serious offense to mock FSM!!!

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  15. 1465 - plumberbob - Feb 4th, 2010

    @ 1463 – Peyton – ,

    As Pastafarians, we’re all here on this site to have fun and support each other. We do, however, need to keep our mission and our theology separate. Our mission is to prevent the introduction of religious mythology into public school science curricula. Our theology is satire; when Creationists try to stick their mythology into science classes, ours must be there too.

    The attached talk by Dr Andy Thomson tells us how our needs as helpless infants uses the same parts of the brain as our thoughts about the mythology of religion:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg

    The fears and terrors of the unknown are powerful drivers in our need for superstition.

    “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis

    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” -Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century CE)

    “Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear” – Thomas Jefferson

    RAmen

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  16. 1466 - Michał Borsuk - Feb 5th, 2010

    Only one offended per six emails?! I hereby demand more bigotry! This material is not amusing enough!

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  17. 1467 - NinjaProxy - Feb 6th, 2010

    oooooooo good admin thank you

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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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