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Essay: The Flying Spaghetti Monster is losing what little popularity it had

At London South Bank University, images of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have been banned.[1]

According to Google trends data, public interest in the Flying Spaghetti Monster has fallen - as has interest in evolutionary ideas.[2] Meanwhile, global creationism is growing.

Rory Fenton, who is the president of the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS) declared in 2014:[3]

"...at London South Bank University our members were told they could not invite speakers who criticised religion at all, or even engage religious societies in debates, putting joining the South Bank Atheist Society on a par with joining the BNP. This February the same university banned images of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical deity in which nobody believes, on the grounds that they were "religiously offensive".[4]

Muslims were offended by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.[5]

Evidently, the demons that run the religions of atheism and evolution are weaker than the demon who runs the religion of Islam! No more Flying Spaghetti Monster for you godless, English, university students! See also: Desecularization of Britain in the 21st century

The atheist philosopher of science Michael Ruse said "Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today."[6] In the their Question evolution! campaign, Creation Ministries International asserts that evolution is a religion.[7]

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Google trend data for the term Flying Spaghetti Monster: Public interest has dramatically fallen

As you can clearly see, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is losing what little popularity it had! Meanwhile, global creationism is growing rapidly.

By the way evolutionists, the transitional animal the Flying Kitty is quite pleased that worldwide searches for the term "cat" is WAY UP at a popular search engine beginning with a G!

According to Google Trends, Google searches for the term "Flying Spaghetti Monster" is dramatically down.

More bad news for Flying Spaghetti Monster fans

Kenneth R. Miller's number one argument in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial has been shot down as the beta-globin pseudogene appears to be functional.[8]

Google trend data: Worldwide interest in evolutionary ideas has fallen

While the transitional animal the Flying Kitty has flown through God's magnificent sky, worldwide interest in evolutionary ideas has fallen.[9]

Decline of global atheism

Since World War II a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the evolutionary position which employs methodological naturalism have been atheists and agnostics (see also: Causes of evolutionary belief)[10]

On July 24, 2013, CNS News reported:

Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass."[11]

On December 23, 2012, Professor Eric Kaufmann who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:

I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.

On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population. The demographic disparity between the religious, growing global South and the aging, secular global North will peak around 2050. In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British. [12]

Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."[13]

See also: Decline of global atheism and Desecularization

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References

  1. Why are British Student Unions imposing Islamic rules?
  2. *Flying Spaghetti Monster - Google trends data worldwide
  3. Atheist students must fight back
  4. Why are British Student Unions imposing Islamic rules?
  5. Why are British Student Unions imposing Islamic rules?
  6. Ruse, M., How evolution became a religion: creationists correct? National Post, pp. B1,B3,B7 May 13, 2000.
  7. 15 questions for evolutionists
  8. Kenneth R. Miller's number one argument in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial has been shot down as the beta-globin pseudogene appears to be functional.
  9. *Worldwide interest in evolutionary ideas
  10. Global Study: Atheists in Decline, Only 1.8% of World Population by 2020
  11. 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious, Tuesday, April 30, 2013
  12. Shall the religious inherit the earth - Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Eric Kaufmann