Intelligent Design and Creationism are two different theories that are similar to one another, but have been argued many times that they are two completely different ideas. In Gregg Easterbrook’s New Fundamentalism he argues that Intelligent Design is based on science and he talks about a higher power that created everything in the universe and it is separate from Creationism. Bobby Henderson was extremely irritated with Easterbrook and his idea that he supported Intelligent Design is on a different level than Creationism. In Henderson’s Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Open Letter to the Kansas School Board, he creates a religion and uses it to prove that Intelligent Design is no different from Creationism. Henderson refutes Easterbrook’s…show more content… Easterbrook writes, “Intelligent-design thinking does not propound any specific faith or even say that the higher power is divine. It simply holds that there must be an unseen intellect in the cosmos” (345). Henderson would disagree with Easterbrook’s statement because the “unseen intellect in the cosmos” is just another phrase for some higher power in the world and it would just be teaching students about Creationism. Henderson writes, “If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is based on science, not on faith” (349). Henderson creates this parallel religion that is similar to Christianity to prove that Easterbrook’s Intelligent Design would be teaching students about religion and God. Henderson refutes Easterbrook’s Intelligent Design because it too similar to creationism and has nothing to do with science, thus proven by his satirical
