Physics graduate Bobby Henderson created the false deity Flying Spaghetti Monster to protest Kansas State Board of Education's decision to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.

Here is Henderson's open letter to the Kansas School Board.

I believe Pastafarianism will catch-on with the Hollywood elite and soon people will be paying $25 for designer spaghetti strands to tie around their wrists.  I'm serious -- It could happen.

Related links:
Flying Spaghetti Monster sighted in Germany
Flying Spaghetti Monster on CNN
Sketch of the FSM (looks more like a pig with tentacles)