Anti-Spore site launches, cites “attack on Christian values”

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Lafiel said:

TruckOSaurus said:

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.

Maybe you should read a bit more on the theory of evolution... nature doesn't decide anything :

The strongest members of a species survive in greater number because of x attribute so that attribute is more likely to be passed on to the next generations while the members with useless attribute y don't survive as well so with time this attribute disapears.

 

 

I wouldn't say strongest, but "fittest".

for example in Australia the bigger snakes die, because they can eat the big cane toads, which produce enough poison to kill those snakes, while the smaller ones of the same species only can eat smaller cane toads, which don't have enough poison an hence land snakes in australia are getting smaller - this is a modern example of evolution

 

@ Gnizmo )

in biological terms "fittest" includes reproduction, so that human in your example wouldn't be the fittest

 

Good idea. I was thinking about that but didn't do it.
Another perfect example is antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The bacteria that are not resistant simply die when they encounter an antibiotic, but ocasionally a strain resistant to the antibiotic is created through mutation. When that happens the resistant strain continues to live and reproduce but the others die out. Scientists then develop a way to counter the new bacteria, but then a resistant strain develops, etc.