Without that support, the weight of scientific evidence would surely marginalize their largely unproven and often irrational claims.
Some bullies are reacting to their own insecurity or incompetence, but others may be using the irrational claims, false evaluations, humiliation, fear, and other instruments of a bully's trade to cover up malfeasance, embezzlement or other illegal actions.
Constitutionalism developed to reign in the state from interfering with the private lives of its subjects and freedom of speech and expression was fundamental to protecting the powerless access reason in the face of irrational claims by state power.
In a world of miracles, none of which was so clearly miraculous that it would be irrational to claim there was a natural explanation, reason would lead us to the false conclusion that no miracles had ever occurred.
It added there are exceptions, including naming an officer so as to prevent a miscarriage of justice or where it's irrational to claim their identity has not been already established.
While no one wants a "war," Mr. Broad does not seem to understand that it is the continued unwillingness of most scientists to confront irrational religious claims that threatens both political and educational progress, particularly in the United States.
That demonstrates how irrational is the claim that his intent is to harm the US.
She then makes the (to me, irrational and irritating) claim that more people are on welfare under Obama than ever were under Bush.
How can they be irrational enough to claim that polls show that Americans don't want the Affordable Care Act, and yet ignore polls like the NBC survey that showed 46percentt of Americans oppose ObamaCare but only 37percentt oppose the Affordable Care Act.
Al Gore may have lost by a hair, but John Kerry lost by a mile, and if Bob Herbert and the left continue to call those who disagree with their point of view ignorant, irrational and clueless, claiming that we have our brains "on hold," they will lose again in 2006 and in 2008 by two miles.
The claim is irrational, just completely irrational!" In one way, Assange was right.
