Scopes II: Flying Spaghetti Monster

Extrapolating into the future thanks to Boing Boing, I am able to project that 2006 will undoubtedly see the biggest fight over the teaching of evolution in Kansas since the last biggest fight over evolution in Kansas or the one before that in Tennessee.

This one will pit the worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (who happen to be so funny that reading their bit about pirates and global warming caused a good amount of the coffee I was just sipping to lodge in my sinus) against those who believe the state is right to hire legions of shadowy men in yellow hardhats to enforce the teaching of intelligent design theory in Kansas schools. (Or something like that.) An early nominee for trial of the century.

Update: As he notes in comments, reader Ryan has written an exceedingly earnest exploration of Pastafarianism, as the worship of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is known.