Bobby Henderson (activist)

Bobby Henderson is a physics graduate from Oregon State University, born on July 18, 1980 in Roseburg, Oregon. He is the founder of Pastafarianism, a parody religion.

Pastafarianism

In 2005, Henderson founded the cult of Pastafarianism in response to the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to spend as much time teaching intelligent design as they did the theory of evolution.

Henderson claims that the Pastafarian theory of the origin of the world is also taught in the same way as intelligent design and the theory of evolution.

Pastafarianism asserts that the world was created in one day by the flying spaghetti monster, who created a mountain, then a tree, and finally a dwarf. The dogmas of Pastafarianism are centered on references to noodles and pirates, and on some parodies of creationist theories to prove their right. Among other things, it is claimed that global warming is the result of the decline of the pirate population.

Henderson is the author of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.