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hsrob said:
Played_Out said:
That's funny. I thought it was an attack on Darwinian values.

 

One can subscribe to evolution without being a Darwinist in the same way that someone can believe in God without prescribing to a particular relgion. Darwin may have put a name to it but the force was there long before him.

Obviously, or else he never would have developed the opposable thumbs necessary to write his theory down!

I don't understand what point you are trying to make, though. The Darwinian evolutionary model of natural selection is  universally agreed upon by the mainstream scientific community, and is supported by mountains of incontrovertible evidence. Clearly, Spore flies in the face of this theory by incorporating mechanics that support the anti-scientific (read: theological) theory of "Intelligent Design".

Or are you suggesting that animals might have evolved by breaking open meteors to find new body parts???

Seriously though, I don't have any problem with Spore's take on evolution, apart from the fact that a game based on the concept "survival of the fittest" would have provided a lot more interesting and original gameplay. Collecting "upgrades" to improve stats is a mechanic that has been done to death. As it stands, the game may as well have not been about evolution at all.