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If you haven't heard of Pastafarianism you've obviously been doing something productive with your life lately. It's all over the internet: a new religion that worships Flying Spaghetti Monster (pictured at right), created in response to the Kansas State School Board's decision to teach Intelligent Design in schools alongside the theory of evolution.

When Boing Boing posted about this a few days ago, they got a snappy email telling them about a Dr Kent Hovind, who is "willing to pay any individual a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who can give any empirical evidence for evolution".

Boing Boing's response?

"We are willing to pay any individual $250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."

Pastafarianism home page; Flying Spaghetti Monster Wikipedia entry; "15 answers to Creationist nonsense".