Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter | Bill Nye, Derren Brown u0026 more | Big Think" video.

  1. Those in religions, that are certain that they know absolute truth, yet kill each other over who has the correct information from the gods, believe they are "critical" thinkers. This religious scientist, (which is an oxymoronic statement) Anthony Leewenhoek was certain that suffering could only occur because God had willed it to be so. From the book Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif … published 1926 … “Life lives on life—it is cruel, but it is God’s will,” he pondered. If a scientist is asked the question, “Do you believe that the universe was created,” and the scientist answers, “Yes,” that is not critical scientific thinking. That is “I accept as truth, whatever I was taught in my personal religion.”
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