I feel compelled to say something about an article published by American Thinker yesterday -- an article strangely critical of critical thinking, titled "The Great Critical Thinking Dodge." The article describes critical thinking as the means by which liberals "shut out and shout down" the scientific method but in my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth. Liberal academics absolutely love the scientific method, and actually use it as a weapon to discourage critical thinking skills.  Liberal teachers don't want to teach their students to think for themselves -- they want students to simply believe what they have been taught. In July of 1925 the Scopes Monkey Trial was held because critical thinking in schools was literally illegal -- students could only be taught creationism in science class, not Darwin's theory of evolution via natural selection. From September to November of 2005, the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial was held because critical thinking is still illegal -- students can only be taught the theory of evolution in science (not philosophy) class, and teaching intelligent design is illegal. Apparently the goal of education isn't really to teach young people how to think, but what to believe. Indoctrination is not optional. Most people believe that Darwin's theory of evolution is true, well supported by copious amounts of scientific evidence. Biologist Jerry Coyne even wrote a book titled Why Evolution is True. An overwhelming consensus of biologists agree that the evidence is overwhelming. "Critical thinking" about the theory of evolution … [Read more...]