I posted about this on begum before, but now there's an interview out with Bobby Henderson, prophet of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism:

GM: What do you think of the contest awarding $250,000 to anyone who can 'produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?' Does this challenge degrade your preachings or help perpetuate them?

BH: The Boing Boing $250k challenge was great. That is sort of the whole deal with religion: you make an a priori assumption and then challenge people to disprove you. If that's a legit strategy in mainstream religion, and increasingly in the science classroom, then it's legit for FSMism as well.