Eurogamer has posted an illuminating interview with acknowledged 61FPS crush object Will Wright, on Spore his eight-years-in-the-making project. It turns out that "militant atheists" are pissy about the game's depiction of evolution:
"I didn't expect to hit hot buttons on the atheist side as much; I expected it on the religious side," Wright revealed. "But so far I've had no critical feedback at all from anybody who is religious feeling that we were misrepresenting religion or it was bad to represent religion in the game. It was really the atheists."
Weird. You'd think that a game based on the evolution of species would be lauded by atheist groups. On the other hand, the player acts as a godlike creator, and the player's creations worship him or her as such. It could be argued that Spore promotes intellgent (and less than intelligent) design.
I tried to find people online who are decrying Spore's hidden agenda. All I could come up with was a bunch of atheist bloggers making fun of the easily offended unbelievers responsible for Will's comments. I'm sure he gets hatemail, but I could not find even one serious complaint about this game regarding religion or evolution. Where are these people?
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