Recent content by Charles Brough

It seems some are happy to regard agricultural villages as "civilization." The standard seems to be that if people gave up nomadic life and settled stable villages, they had become "civilized." Well, I do have to admit that it would be hard to base civilization on a nomadic way of life...

My point was that socialism is only an unworkable theory and that there is no functioning socialistic state in the world and never has been. The posts have included horrendous explanations of how "socialism" works but not one example of an existing socialist economy in the world. People like...

I am puzzled as to why everyone agrees that it took a long time for mankind to discover agriculture and animal husbandry. For tens of thousands of years, man the hunter was successful and muliplied all over the world. He did not need to change faster. Finally, however, a population crash...

The question was raised as to how long it would take for us to evolve from single celled organisms when we actually are made up of them. Dude, you seem to think we did not evolve from a more primitive primate! What was the process you imagine does account for our change? Our age? We...

In humans, a case can be made for sexual selection. The shape of a woman's hips is an erotic trigger for we men, and it is an indication that the hips are wide enough for a decent birth canal to function and produce a live baby. Ample breasts are another trigger and they are needed to nurse...

Granted, it is hard to accept that there is something about the elaborate feathers and crests of the peacock that would benefit the species having it reproduced. Needless to say, however, the species has thrived, so there has to be benefit in what they are doing! But in we humans, it is a...

Yes, there is no "pure" capitalism because NOTHING is "pure", the concept is an absolute and cannot be conceived by us in our finite world. So, let's be practical. "Capitalism" exists where we have private ownership, the people do not live in communes, and prices are determined by supply and...

animal extinctions? why look for a scapegoat? The idea that we humans caused the mass extinction of large mammals around the world over 10,000 years ago has had a hard time because social theorists like to look down on hunters as NRA fanatics and down on the human race as a line of rotting...

I've been all over the world and traveled in 35 nations, lived in four and yet I never found a socialist nation! By that I mean one where the government rationed everything so all would get an equal amount of eveything and, therefore, where prices were not determined by supply and demand. Every...

Anyone who is active in stocks is well advised not to discuss it at all with other people. You either let your broker lead you so that you have someone else to blame when you lose money, or you make your own decisions completely. There is hardly any middle ground. When you tell other people...

My I suggest a different line of reasoning? The concept of sexual selection is that we "subconsciously" seek the best mate to reproduce ourselves in order to propagate our line. Instead, the whole situation can be pictured in a far more accurate way. All we need to do is understand our...

I was closely associated with the TV industry for decades and found that the comedy shows did not use canned laughter as is supposed so much as "canned audiences." What the producers did and do is get people into the studio and watch the episode for free. People would line up hours ahead of...

A person should be able to take every close relative in his life and figure out what traits that person had on his own developments. I can do that myself, so I imagine anyone can. Whether I grew up sociable or a loner-type, however, had to do largely with other things. Also, the different...

One reason for the growing popularity of the Creationist so called "theory" of our origin is not just that religious reaction is underway but also because scientists make the same mistake everyone on this threat has made---that is, you keep talking about "facts" and "truth" and "theory" when you...

Seems to me that rocks and plants are not beautiful in themselves but only that we see them as such because we have evolved as animals who are naturally, evolutionarily used to and, hence, at ease with nature. Do you see that, instead, as some sort of "miracle?" What I see is a lively curiosity...