Critical thinking...or the lack thereof

[robvalue]

Good thread tone!

The world is in desperate need of better critical thinking.

I try my best to promote it all over this forum for the same reason you do, that maybe just one or two people somewhere will take the time to think about it and maybe properly evaluate their beliefs. I don't expect those people to be our regular forum theists, they are generally examples of minds so deeply entrenched in mythology that it's always easier for them to make one more broken argument than to consider they might actually be wrong. (Note I said consider, not admit or conclude. All I want is for people to think.)

But there are bound to be hundreds of other people reading the forum who don't sign up, just "lurking" as we call it (we need a more polite term!) looking for ideas. Those are the people who I think benefit the most from our discussions, even though we probably will never directly hear from them. It's the same principle as a debate which will be put onto YouTube.

I propose we call them onlookers. Hi onlookers! I hope what we have to say is of some use to you