How can we change the current capitalist economy to make life better for more people? That communism thing didn't work very well. What if we just put a 'cap' on capitalism? What if we opened up all the financial records for individual accounts over $100,000, and we let everybody see where the money goes? Do we really need billionaires telling us what we should be doing? Because that's what we have right now - you can buy the politicians of your choice, and get them to vote for what you want, if you have the money to spend. I think we should be spending a little bit more of it on payrolls and healthcare and education and retirement accounts for everybody, not just the 1%.

What would it take to have a global civilization? Join The Church of Science to find out!

What would we like to have in our civilization? I think more recreation would be a good thing. That's how I can pursue happiness. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can be achieved if we just change the world. Easy-peezy.

Abortion is a major social issue in the US, because some people believe that a single cell is a human. I disagree. I think the categorization of an organism classified as Homo sapiens does not achieve 'human' status until they develop consciousness.

Think about that. If you were only considered human based on your ability to think, imagine how many politicians would be unemployed?

Humans build civilizations based on ideas. We think and generate new combinations of information. We share those ideas and use them to keep trying for a more perfect union. But some people want to resurrect an old idea here in America. They think we should bring back some of that old time religion.

I thought we had freedom of belief in America. If you believe that a one-cell embryo is a human, you go right ahead. I do not believe that. If you believe that the reason an embryo is a human is that it has a 'soul', or some magical connection with a deity, prove it. Until someone can prove the existence of this or that deity, any argument based solely on belief should not be the basis of laws.

So, get out of people's bedrooms, and leave the reproduction to the people that want children, not the ones that don't.

Version 2. F1000Res. 2016; 5: 2765.

Published online 2017 Jun 7. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8937.2

Early embryo mortality in natural human reproduction: What the data say

Gavin E. Jarvisa,1 Univ. of Cambridge

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 nice ideas, but we can't trust any of them'. Since we don't have any evidence that any specific deity exists, what if we just ignore religion as a justification for behavior?

What if to be member of a new global civilization you just have to embrace one idea: We are all evolving social primates trying to survive on the only planet we have. We accept the knowledge derived from science that tells us about our evolutionary history.

We can accept the knowledge we get from science, and figure out how to make the world a better place for all of us.

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 ability to vote on things, up to the point where we intrude on peoples right to own things. CD gives us the ability to vote on everything, while preserving a degree of ownership.

The question is how many resources should one individual be able to control? We have to share the planet - so what is a reasonable limit on how much any one individual should own? A few acres and a mule? A bed and a warm place to go to the bathroom? $10,000,000? An entire nation?

We'll just have to see how it plays out...

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' out of all adult citizens?

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....