Mrodgers asked me, "Umm where do you see people talking about cheating?"
Well, umm... did you read the thread?
$kelet0r - i can see problems arising from that though - how long would it take to assemble the ultimate creature by cheating and then uploading it into the spore database and ruining everyone elses' game by bing far too powerful to beat fairly difficult to prevent
and...
not by using cheats necessarily but by altering the game files/data - anyone with some game making/modding experience could do it
etc, etc...