SPORE, it a game where you create things out of nothing, and let them EVOLVE into somthing else. in essence you are playing as a god, in this game. now the bible says that GOD made the earth in 6 (not six hundred million) days. the bible also says that anything but the truth (what the bible, Gods word, says) is a lie and thus a sin. now tell me, is playing a game where you do God's job, and then continue into the game with something that the bible says is a sin (evolution)?? you make the call.
its a game in which you disclaim God by becomeing a god. and if i remeber right, there is a Commandment aginst that...
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Does the Bible ever mentione the word evolution? Is not this lunacy completely a modern interpretation?
Since when did playing become sinful?
People who think like in this thread are really mind control freaks who are out to build fear so that they have power of the minds of others. That's it: plain and simple.
the bible also says that anything but the truth (what the bible, Gods word, says) is a lie and thus a sin.
Bats are birds? Insects with 4 legs? God withholdng the truth about the tree of wisdom from eve?
...and then continue into the game with something that the bible says is a sin (evolution)
The bible says evolution is a sin? I never heard the bible mentioning evolution at all, not even in regards to saying it is a sin ;-)
By anyone's standards, bible mania is more ridiculous than any computer game ever spawned.
First Amendment trumps first commandment, beeyatch! Please to keep your crippled dogma within your little tribe of cripples.
As a person who bought Spore the day it came out because I'd been looking forward to it more than you fundies look forward to the day when everyone dies and you think you'll be rewarded for thinking about God, I have to say fail!!.
Spore, although great game, albeit way too easy and simplified, is not based upon evolution. If anything it is intelligent design.
I hate to say it but evolution happens over millions of years precisely because their isn't a God to come along and add arms, legs, eyes, ears, horns and what not. Yeah you start the game as a single cells and proceed through stages, but at intervals the 'player' interceeds and adds bits and pieces. This is intelligent (or unintelligent, check out some of the creatures created by the community) design, done by a creator.
If anything fundies should love this game. I wonder why they see it as evolution?
The bible also says that the parents must kill their kids and the kids must kill their parents.
The bible also says that women must marry their rapists, and that they are to keep silent all the time.
The bible also says that the rapture is coming, which never happened.
Just a small point, but you don't create something out of nothing in the game. You're given a blank, very simple creature to evolve as you will. And its not evolution in the strictest sense; in fact I think its closer to ID than evolution.
Not that I'm going to get worked up about it on that score, its still a fun game.
What version of the Bible were you reading, pal!?
Oh and I'm not normally one to make petty remarks like this, but for fuck's sake get yourself a spell checker. Does my head right in.
So, playing the part of a Godlike force in a PRETEND game = bad.
Pulling the Elisha card when mocked, claiming that calling you a daft little fuck is a direct assault on God, basically saying your poor widdle feelings are enough to warrant God sending bears to maul all us bad people = okay?
Seriously?!
Someone's never seen Populous, Black & White, Dungeon Keeper, Sim City, The Sims, and all the rest of 'em god games.
Actually, I do have a game named "Evolution" where you more or less guide evolving species into intelligence. You don't so much "design" them as pick which step in the evolution tree you want to develop now and sometimes move them to the correct/ideal environment. The creatures are all based in reality.
It has far more of evolution than Spore (and it's sort of boring, too, since most of the time you just watch things happen rather than do something)...
surely as in Spore you, the player, changes your species over time, it's actually closer to creationism than evolution, or is at least theistic evolution, so I would think that the hard core atheists would have more issues with it than the fundies.
"It's a video game, I should really just relax" - MST3K for the win.
Incidentally he's wrong, the original cell-creature comes out of an asteroid, it isn't implied to be created out of nothing.
Spore is more like an awful oversimplification of evolution. It's mechanics resemble creationism much more than evolution.
Oversimplified... What a perfect word to picture Spore. Everything in the game was way simplified and toned down for larger audiences. Most people regard the game as disappointing suckage.
You'd think the ActRaiser games would make Mr. Baur[sic] here even angrier. I mean, those are literal "god games"--you make natural disasters and get people to worship you and everything. And they were on the SNES, so shouldn't his head have exploded years ago?
first, you don't 'become god' in spore. you create a creature, and guide it through its development. like EVERY OTHER PET GAME OUT THERE. you cant: create plants, create planets, create galaxies, or destroy any of the before mentioned. learn about what you're criticizing before you criticize it. dumbass.
OoIf i were an autho i could create an entire new universe complete with it's own god or gods and people it with whatever kind of people i wanted to. The star wars series is like this. If my story took place in an ordnary place i would still control what happened. All fiction authors are "god" over their creations.
Imagination is something fundies exclude from their being. These are the most unimaginitive people i know.
This must greive their creator who gives them this ability only for them to reeject it.
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