Comments on TREMBLING HAND: Spore: The Intelligent Design Simulator

2010-11-26T22:03:30.903-08:00
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Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the gala...

2009-11-03T03:16:32.671-08:00

Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the galaxy. There are over 500,000 unique planets to explore! That's just unbelievable! Also you can create any type of creature and all the creatures you run into are from other players. No other game can claim this.. The best part of this game is the space phase, you could spend a lifetime exploring all the planets and meeting new creatures.. This game is limitless, there is no other game that comes close to this one.
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@ Destructor: Spore does illustrate the principle ...

2008-09-14T21:12:00.000-07:00

@ Destructor: Spore does illustrate the principle that crappy organisms are out-competed by less crappy ones, but the mechanism it uses *isn't* natural selection.

The crux of evolution isn't just that crappy organisms get wiped out. Evolution hinges on the mechanism, which is natural selection driven by random mutations *not* the steady mouse pointer of God.

So when you say you "make" a crappy organism, that's Intelligent Design (although if it's crappy, the 'intelligent' bit might be up for question).

Plus, I should stress that I believe Intelligent Design not only to be an unscientific theory, but a theory that has been thoroughly debunked. Evolution, however, is one of the most tested and powerful explanatory theories in science.

I haven't played the game yet, but if you make a c...

2008-09-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

I haven't played the game yet, but if you make a crappy organism, and it gets wiped out due to it's crappiness, well, that's evolution, right? It may not be a perfect simulator, but I think it illustrates the principle quite nicely.

Hope you don't mind, but I linked to you and your ...

2008-09-12T13:56:00.000-07:00

Hope you don't mind, but I linked to you and your picture above. I swear I'm not a "overly-zealous Christian" loon...though there are probably those who would prefer to describe me that way. LOL.

I agree with you whole-heartedly on Spore's mislab...

2008-09-11T21:59:00.000-07:00

I agree with you whole-heartedly on Spore's mislabeling as an 'evolution simulator' (which it clearly isn't). I'm an Intelligent Design guy myself (the arguments should stop here) and I think the word 'evolution' has been used way, way too much in the mass media to describe something that isn't.

That said, if I ever see an overly-zealous Christian evangelical lauding Spore as the game that 'proves the fallacy of evolution', I'm going to cream him with a metal-plated Bible. Freak.