Sam Yikin on 10 September 2008
| Avalach21 said: Spore makes a joke out of the evolutionary theory, if anything. Honestly, playing the game made me more skeptical of the theory of evolution. I'm the player, and I have to decide what body parts will help my animal survive, and it makes me wonder how an unconscious... entity... like nature itself... can make decisions like that. It seems far fetched. |
Nothing conscious makes the decisions in evolution. Basically, as mutations happen and as species evolve, those with weaker genes (IE traits, such as not being able to run as fast to catch food) either die or produce fewer offspring. The stronger members of the species pass their genes to the next generation, and the cycle repeats. In Spore they chose to use the Intelligent Design method to give the player more customizabiltiy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mutation_and_selection_diagram.svg
