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Sam Yikin on 10 September 2008
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Gnizmo 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.

 

 Survival of the fittest is absolutely incorrect. If there were a human who was born with a complete immunity to diseases but was sterile he would not help advance the species despite being the fittest. It is reproduction of the reproducers. It is more influenced by who can get the most pregnant than any other factor.

EDIT: Sorry, I misread your post (before this post). The strongest members of the species ARE the most likely to reproduce. The less genetically fit ones die before they reproduce or can never attract a mate. For example, look at peacocks. A number of scientists believe they have such magnificent tail feathers because the females are more attracted to the males with bigger/more feathers (or something like that.)

Eventually it all does come down to who reproduces but keep in mind that natural selection plays a huge part in that as well.