Who is Bobby Henderson from The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and what is their importance?

Bobby Henderson is the author of the Gospel, which he writes in a first-person voice. A self-claimed prophet, he is spreading the word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his theories on evolution and intelligent design. As a satire, his character in the book is a firm believer in the supernatural and mocks evolution and ID as implausible, or at least FSMism as just as plausible. He pushes the envelope from creationism to the supernatural to demonstrate the lack of any concrete methodology behind trying to make religion a science. This book was written after Henderson sent a letter to the Kansas school board in protest of their trying to add ID to their school science curriculum as an alternative to evolution.