Mostly Hairless Apes

This is just one answer to the question: Are you civilized? Civilization is a higher order function than society. We need to decide as a species what we want as our global civilization. We have a global economy. We have (sort of) a global government. We definitely do no have a global belief system. But what if we did? What if we all belonged to the Church of Science? What if we said, 'Gods are nic...

We are at the end of an era - The Colonial Era. We had monarchs and plutocrats guiding us through the last 500 years as western European nations expanded over the globe. We established two amazing social adaptations to regulate our societies: Democracy and Capitalism. Now we have to decide which one is more important. Do we want democratic Capitalism (DC), or capitalist Democracy (CD)? DC gives us...

The core theology of The Church of Science. How did humanity evolve with consciousness and artificial selection? This episode provide the 'gospel' truth, according to Science, for a history of humanity.

'Being professional' captures an idea about different things to different people. Maybe we could use those ideas as a new standard for civilized, social behavior. Professionals are rewarded economically, are granted certain social status, and have a say in running their segment of society. Isn't that what citizenship is about? How would society change if we started requiring 'professional behavior...

Could professional sports be a model for social organization? They combine the ideas of biological fitness, intellectual planning, and economic viability to social systems that use regulated combinations of cooperation and competition. Hmmm.

It's been crazy, but things finally came together. It seems to me when you look at life from the perspective of evolution, with three major social adaptations, it all makes sense....

What would a political party based on science look like? Would it be any worse than the current systems?

Revolutions occur because beliefs change. Things are stable in groups when everyone believes basically the same things. IF those things actually represent reality, then they can be stable for a long time. This episode covers centuries of revolutions, all in 30 minutes!

This episode follows up the evolutionary perspective on society, asking about the combinations of major adaptations. Two major social adaptations in modern America are capitalism and democracy. Which one is more important?

This is an introduction to a scientific worldview in the Church of Science. We all believe things, I think we should believe in science. Perhaps this could solve some of our problems.