To the right of the thread title in the search results or the forum display, you'll find a views collumn. It won't be acurate, because people merged it into other threads back in the day and in doing so totally fucked it up, but it's there.
No, as I just said, this has been lost forever due to the morons that couldn't leave the thread alone, and no, actually the current views is less than the number of posts.
Strange. The thread views used to actually be less than the replies. Perhaps 3.0.7 has some sanity checking that makes it never display less than the replies as the views.
Edit:
Yes, the views in the DB is still arround 11,000; it must be a sanity check causing what you see