Flying Spaghetti Monster To Yahweh.

“You’re mine now beyotch!”

This from Reuters

World's oldest noodles found -- in China
Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:03 AM ET
By Patricia Reaney

LONDON (Reuters) - Italians are known for them and theories suggest they may have originated in the Middle East but scientists said Wednesday the world's oldest known noodles, dating back 4,000 years, were made in China.

Houyuan Lu, of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing and his colleagues found the ancient noodles preserved in an overturned, sealed bowl at an archaeological site near the Yellow River in northwestern China.

"Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China about 4,000 years ago," Lu said in an interview.

Until the discovery, reported in the science journal Nature, the oldest written account of noodles was in a book written during the East Han Dynasty in China sometime between 25 and 220.

But there have been other suggestions that noodles were first made in the Middle East and introduced to Italy by the Arabs during the Middle Ages.

"This is the earliest empirical evidence of noodles ever found," said Lu.
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Ah empirical evidence. The eternal bane of the oligophrenichristians.

So lets look at the score:

Proof of a Biblical Creation Cartoon Story (either one) 6,000 years ago: Zero.

Proof of a Great Deluge that eliminated all life on Earth: Zero.

Proof of antediluvian human life spans that ran for centuries: Zero.

Proof of the Earth being halted in its orbit to score a debating point: Zero.

Proof of any other miraculous assertion from raining frogs to virgin births to combusting, hectoring shrubs to bodily ascents to Heaven: Zero.


However, proof of pre-historic pasta? Bingo!

I’m not a convert to the church of the FSM yet, but with evidence of the existence of His Semolinaness mounting up on one side of the scale, and Jerry Falwell’s fat, loathsome ass on the other, the decision is getting easier.

Besides, the FSM communion ceremonies come with fresh pesto and lightly sautéed garlic and are, in a word, fabulous.