"EA's game teaches evolution to children and could "convert" kids from the way of The Lord."

Lets hope so. Then eventually we won't have people like this around.

I am not surprised.

With the DRM issue at hand I'm convinced some kind of demonic influence is at work here.

Give the woman credit at least she is standing up for her beliefs - granted, not in a very good way or even a sensible way but standing up nonetheless...

The real crazyness that this shows though is the amount of venom and ignorance that is produced when someone reads the tag line and then looks at youTube videos. It is sensationalisim and nothing irks a Christian (assumed, cant find denomination anywhere) like being told they are wrong. Not that I ever do that... no.. that would be wrong...

Some fantastic comments on there also...

Anmolon 10 Sep 2008 at 9:47 am 10
Apparently Spore has a code embedded into it that once you finish the game MUSLIMS congratulate you. Brown skinned muslims.

Poteton 10 Sep 2008 at 9:51 am 19
There is one huge difference: Spore fans exist.
Beat that.

And the best one is actually a post from "admin" themselves...

Jack Thompson

whats to say you can't believe in both god and creationism?
taking the bible literally is pretty stupid

I looked at a post on that site that had 293 comments, and I estimate after reading a few comments that about 292 of them say that the site's admin is full of shit.

@Snake - Standing up and speaking/debating about your believes then yes. More than welcome too no matter what faith/denomination you are. If people stand up and talk, then their reasons can be discussed and picked apart. They can also do the same to your own. Communication and respect do not break any laws in fact, they tend to strengthen them.

Bombings and any crimes for whatever reason should be delt with, and indeed generally are, by a court of law of the respective country/state. Religion isn't about breaking the law, as any number of them have some wacked out ideas...

Christians should kill Jews and Gentiels (sp? it's been a while)
Islamic should kill all Infidels
etc etc...

The only exceptions are those that choose to segregate themselves from the curesed/tainted/sinners/non-believers like the Ammish or those that preach respect for all life, like Buddists. Think the other religions have generally cut back on the kill or other speaches in public at least, mostly now deal with forced segrgation and percieved descrimination.

Then again, there are some wacked out real laws too such as
"London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats." and "Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI)." Technically, these are still on the stature books and COULD be enforced. Common sense says otherwise...

If it was it would at least be good or addicting and sadly enough it's not.

I'm actually surprised it took this long for some cooky religious nut to go all "holier than thou" on Spore.

I'm a little dissapointed actually. Could've used more righteous indignation

Dude this is ridiculous. It's a videogame ffs. Cheese and Rice!

Actually, this response to Spore has been the exception for most of the religious community. I haven't really heard a peep from anybody else on the creationist side complaining about it.

I'm with jackal 27 too. I have no issue with the subject of the game, but this lady isn't just looking for attention, she genuinely believes what she's saying.

People will find a reason to bitch about anything. Here's a rather simple game, that lets you create something, and help it evolve over its life. Its something that I wouldn't mind my kids playing because it lets them be creative.

"regulalary"? YOURE A SPELLING SATAN, JIM!!!

I was going to just ignore this brush it off as people being stupid. Then I actually read what the complaint was, and I facepalmed so hard that I replicated the Large Hadron Collider's activation.

If anything, I'd say that God is probably quite pleased with the creativity involved in putting the game together, and also the creativity involved in playing it. Will Wright has never purported to wanting to be God, nor to make players more "powerful" than God, or any such nonsense. At worst, God's probably saddened by Will Wright's atheism, but that's likely as bad as it gets, for the most part. And I'm a Christian so, like, I'm totally an expert on God 'n' stuff.

wait isnt spore creationism? Will said so in a gameinformer interview.

@MotoRobo:

Let me see if I understand your position correctly.

Accepting a sound scientific theory based on over 150 years of experimentation and observation that is corroborated among dozens of fields of scientific inquiry is completely absurd.

But believing in an omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient creator god who had to sacrifice his only son, which is really himself (how does that work?), to himself to convince himself to forgive humanity for being convinced by a talking snake to eat a magical fruit of knowledge in a long lost paradise 6000 years ago because a bunch of bronze age desert nomad sheep herders said it's true is perfectly sane.

Give me a goddamn break.

Its a women Jim. And she has at least realised that it is an E game she just doesn't believe in the evolutionary theory.

Thick but honest and so we cant mock her too much.

@Too Much Coffee Man:

Way to be wrong. I don't know a single atheist (myself included) that claims to know for absolute certainty that god does not exist. We just think the chances of god's existence are pretty close to zero.

The mystery is why people try to elevate religious belief to the same level as rationalism by claiming they are both equally dogmatic.

Awesome. The Jack Thompson post is the best. I'm leaning towards clever parody, but I really want to believe this is a real person.