Anyways, the game is coming out in September this year, but you can already download a free trial of the Creature Creator. Oh, look, I whipped up a creature that looks like the BASS logo. Dear God is it ugly. (below the fold)

I’m pretty sure that that’s not what Tiktaalik actually looked like…

Anyways, this clearly relates to how evolution is perceived by the public. I’m just saying that if, hypothetically, any club vice-presidents were looking for topics in the fall, this might be a good idea.

Contrary what they say, this is pretty obviously not actually evolution. For one thing, Spore has a clear direction towards complexity, which isn’t really how it works. But more obviously there’s a player controlling how the creatures change! I’m not the first one to say this, but if anything, the simulation more resembles Intelligent Design than evolution. Funny how this only happens in fiction. And, hey, it doesn’t necessarily make bad fiction–this game will probably be extremely successful, or so the hype tells me. We’ll see when it comes out.

Come to think of it, the Intelligent Design folks usually don’t consider the possibility that life was created by an entire internet-like community. Doesn’t it make more sense that way? Mosquitoes were obviously created by divine trolls.