Spore angers creationists

No one ever accused creationists of being evolved!

Already ordered my copy.

Um doesn't anyone see his penis? and 2 things...

I don't think thats appropriate, they are just kids! they don't need to learn that young god...

Easy.

They don't have to play it.

Why all the ignorance. Just let life be as it is.

Promote the Disclosure Project.

Call me small minded, but i am a creationist, though i think this game is totally cool!

thats just b*s*. the game still acknowledges a creator, just because the gamer is the creator making the decisions, the game does not deny the idea of someone/something/some creator to be making the evolutionary progress. people need to wake up and just play the game and deal with the fact that the bible isnt all FACT.

the headline should be: "Stupid people angry again"

Why must all religions insist that everyone else must join them. Believe whatever you want as an individual and let others think for themselves. Frankly, Religions seem to be dictatorships in my opinion, and only ever lead to war and suffering in the world

it's only a game with this new machine they could prove any religion that says gods real wrong so i don't know why there worrying about a stupid game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its rediculous how deep people look into things.

Its not as if there was a banner in the game saying "the process of evolution in this game is of fact" lol
its so silly.

Haha! Good pic

I think people should know, its just a game. I dont think its trying to tell us, this is what happened.

they said it themselves:
"this entire GAME..."

As stupid as it is, i saw it coming since I read the 1st news on Spore earlier in the year.
It's not teaching kids anything that isn't the truth.

Evolution is life, creationism is a Christian ideal, so if Christians don't like it, they dont have to play it.

DONT BAN IT and ruin it for the rest of us.

Stupid people worry me... =(

It's a video game. Not the newest edition of the bible.

Im glad that this game is around to actually debate the contrast between what creationist believe and what evolutionist believe.

Maybe this publicity will boost sales.

Spore should be taught in schools!

reason #-7675766876 why "religion" is useless, should be banned, and anyone brainwashed by it be sent to a reeducation camp!

Spore rules.

`nuff said

Just wait for the LHC prove the big bang as completely scientific.. we can just shove it up creationist's a $$
and i came to current.. HOPING there was an article about this.. b.c well it just seems obvious

since when is the all mighty god threatened by a video game i just bought that game and its fun sure it has some anti creationism themes but......so.

As long as the creationists are angry, I'm happy... They take EVERYTHING seriously. I'm starting to think that religion is a lifestyle choice that involves not only spirituality but also finding something offensive in everything...

hail satan

It was only a matter of time before they complained...people need to relax. Everyone has different views on the origin of life and the universe. No one truly has the right to say what should be allowed when it comes to something like this.

Okay creationists, if you don't like it you should burn it, right? Just like the books with evolution in them. How about you just 'evolve' and stop fighting what other people believe in and want have fun with.

but why dognamedblue... she's so pretty! And She's a mom!!!
Holy shit she should be in charge of something!

Evolutionist Propaganda? One I doubt evolutionist is a word since the -ist would suggest that it's a social or political movement. So does the propaganda part. It like saying your spreading your gravatationist propaganda. Its like telling your political views to a rock, science just is.

What doesn't get creationists in a hissy fit? When your world view is based on fantasy, pretty much anything and everything is going to contradict it. And that includes other fantasies like this game.

YOU SEE HOW EVOLUTION WORKS IS THAT THE GOD HE MAKES A PENIS OUT OF SOMETHING AND THEN GIVES IT BOOBS

FOR THE LOLS

OK YEAH AWESOME

good thing creationists are becoming the minority

They can teach religion in schools
when we can teach evolution, humanities and science in church!

Conservative hypocrites!

This just in, everything angers everybody. Activist groups call for all existence to cease.

I'm -this- close to agreeing with them...

Why don't they make a game that hundreds of thousands of people want to play about Creationism?
There is a solution...

the thing with creationists isn't that they believe in an divine creator, you can believe in what you want, it's that THEY WANT THE WORLD TO END FOR THE SECOND COMING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BY ANY MEAN POSSIBLE!

if america votes this woman in to the whitehouse then I'd seriously make plans for the end of the world - creationist style
andy,

angers creationists: whenever I see that I instantly think: good! Anything that offends creationsists is a good thing in my humble opinion.

get over yourselves

seriously? they ought to develop their own game if they have such a problem with this one.

Yes quite a stupid point and one hell of a awesome game.

oh what would it look like if this tree was alive and had eyeballs? . . . . .

bahahahahahahhaha

stupid

but funny

I was played Spore this morning and needless to say I was late for work. It's friggin' AWESOME!!!

They advertie this on TV as creatiolutionism combining both theories. Maybe it offends my sensibilities as an evolutionist. It prolly did happen that our creator guides the evolution of us animals. Who knows though? I want to play this game!!!!

Looks like the creature above is growing a giant member. Maybe the creationists are really complaining about sex-ed.

wow

i mean

wow

they'd probably get mad at a "god" game too

where you get to come to earth and live and die "for the people", and wars are fought in the name of your legitimacy.

that would actually be kind of fun.

Creationists kooks, whats next? News Flash "Creationists create time machine to go back in time to cut down tree of knowledge".

I really doubt that creationists are actually angry although they may feel some cultural resistance to the game. But I'm sure they all understand that it's a game, otherwise you'd see em pissed off at Too Human or any other game that doesn't fit into their absurd vision of the world.

A couple of bloggers? Eh. What can you expect from blowhards?

I think the fact that the game HASN'T seen that much resistance is a sign of good progress. There may be a stubborn section of this country who, despite the evidence, will believe whatever the hell they want. But science, education and society rolls on without them

Part of the reason they lose so consistently I think is because institutions are catching onto their game. They're starting to realize that they are using the same arguments over and over and over again even after being refuted decades ago and so they typically aren't given credence even by activist judges.

Its game people....thats it. If its such a problem now then why didn't anyone say anything when the SimCity games came out?

Fantastic! More free publicity/controversy over a children's a game that will just increase the demand/sales. Half the time, it's the company planting these stories, otherwise the narrow-minded would never find out about them. And then there's the hunter/gatherer narrow-minded who search out society's ills as part of their creationist crusade-if it ain't in the bible it ain't true or cain't exist. I know if if I still held onto everything the nuns tried to beat into/teach me, I'd be all messed up about the Lord too.

Evolution and creationism are the same thing. Just like the Big Bang and let their be light. It is 2008 are we still having these petty arguments.

Evolution happens quickly and in steps. Quantum leap forward in design. This leap is made possible by 'The Ghost in our genes'.

We need to rid our politics, media and academia of these extremist who view the world either extremely left (atheist/materialist) or extreme right (Religion freaks)

this is a genre of Game that is called a 'God Game', you play God, that is against every religion in the world, And is what makes this game, and the Sims so cool.Whenever I play a game sim, I always disregard the religious element of it, the hints keep telling me to build a church, I ignore it, and guess what - society survives in the game. We don't need it, we are a technology race and we have been so for a100+ years, time to cast down you small little god. I don't believe in banning things, if people what to waste a life on delusional pursuits let them, just don't give the aimless twats a voice or a platform, time to evolve. I piss on your God's.

Bow to the way of spode! It is we who are your fire dogs!

The controversy about whether or not the GTA games provoke violence in kids has A LOT more credibility than this. And that's saying a lot.

isn't evolution the whole point of this game. And if you don't believe that things evolve don't spoil this game for every 1 else by being selfish.

I beleive in creationism, but let me tell you this game is alot of fun.

Hell, the commercial for the game got it right by calling it "Creatiolutionism".

Of course Spore angers gods children! It spells it out for them, so they can't dismiss it with thoughts about Santa Clause and sugar plumb fairies...

So what?

Why care what they are stating? Is there a remote possibility that what they want will happen?

No.

Pointless to give them attention.----I don't bother with people that are just do this. Wawawa they don't teach what I want. OMG they are talking about the bible.

both are stupid.
Neither are worthy.
The world would be better without any of those kinds of people....but they are here and because they are ignoring them would be best bet.

They'll yell.

Ignore harder.

Oh heavens what shall we do?! If youre a creationist and you dont like Spore pick your kids up a copy of Left Behind the game and show them some good Christian gaming.

Its sad, but its radical thinking like this that is turning kids away from being interested in science. I was at the Spore launch party and was lucky to hear Frank Drake speak about the declining interest in science and his hope that games like Spore will re spark and interest in kids.

There are games with much much worse things than evolution in them. Why does everyone have to try and ban everything these days? Ever heard of a boycott? Pretty soon someone is going to try and ban barking dogs, I swear.

Are these the same folks who got all bent out of shape at the DaVinci Code? Seriously, is the faith so weak that a _game_ can unravel their belief system? Get a grip folks, and remember that its all just art, not a reality show...

People will complain about any sort of game. It's getting a little silly.

If Spore wasn't based around evolution of a creature, and based on the creation of a creature, you would be done playing in one step...your creature would just pop into existance and never change...

boring!

the game kinda sucks, much ado about nothing methinks.

its a game. only religious nut jobs would trip off this game. i am christian my self and love god. AND I ALSO LOVE SPORE! im not going to hell for. dont let your kids get the game then.

I hate to be so base but - Boohoo they are angry! Who cares what these hillbillies think besides social conservative candidates?! I wish we could just divide America in half. Idiots on oneside who want to own assualt weapons, doubt global warming, and don't believe in evolution, and civilized people on the other.

I just don't apprehend it.. I never will... (sigh)...

Why is this even a debate still, Creationists? The Large Hadron Collider turned on yesterday.

Voted up. Creationists seem to take every opportunity they can to harp on anything that defies their own way of thinking. A lot of hardcore conservatives appear to want everybody to think like they do because they're so afraid of any other point of view.

How sad.

sometimes creationists really can get under my skin but this is just stupid and not worth the energy.

can you imagine, little kids having to sneak off to their friends house to play this game because their parents have forbidden it as heresy? it's laughably pathetic.

If anything, they should be getting angry at the fact that the player assumes the role of the creator.
Super blasphemy, away!

Seriously though, f#% 'em. Paranoid, delusional, useless sacks of flesh.
The only thing people of that mindset are good for is spitting out more fools.

Just because there is a group of bloggers trying to get it banned, does NOT mean that all creationist are against this game.

IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE and FEAR all walk hand and hand. Personally I think children should be taught that you cannot get more secular than religious thought and to assume folks living 2000 years ago who didn't even know why it rained somehow figured out what started the universe(god) is not likely... We should try not to condemn the FEARFUL however... after all condemnation is a RELIGIOUS idea!

i want this game really bad. I believe in god and i also people should make thier own choises on how to view the world and life. These parents shouldnt be tryin to brainwash these children but letting them make thier own path.

Creationist anger ME!

If you play the game and design your own little creature, leaping mysteriously through elements of evolution that simply cannot be explained, then this is more about creation. whether it is intelligent or unintelligent design, that's the real question that the game hinges on in my eyes. Leave it to chance and your creature dies. Put purpose in to it's being, and give it remarkably specific characteristics, then it lives. interesting concept.

i think that even a child or teenager will realize how absurd the required evolutionary changes are in this game.

yet another simple example of the overwhelming evidence for intelligent design. great game, and in fact great in teaching kids about creation!

If anything, this game is pro-creationist, because the user plays the role of god! No computer game that allows you to make intelligent and effective decisions and choices could ever imitate the dynamics of chance and change that characterise evolution.

If there was a purely evolutionary computer game, you would just have to sit and watch chaos unfold and while this is (most likely) how life developed, it is probably more fun to have a go at being god!

For a parent to even refer to a video game as a learning tool is pretty scary. If a child isn't mature enough to realize any video game is a fantasy then maybe he or she shouldn't be playing them. Also worse things exist in other video games that i'm sure those same parents overlook.

I don't know what this world is coming to... Any Creationist who seriously believes that their child will base their entire theory of evolution and life on a video game needs to be flailed with a tack hammer. For that manner if ANY parent that allows their child to base their entire theory of life and evolution on a video game deserves the same. Parents teach your children YOUR knowledge and beliefs, ground them to YOUR ideals and then maybe you wouldn't be so scared of losing them to outside influences.