The phrase "rational evidence" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe evidence that is based on logic and reasoning, rather than emotions or beliefs. Example: The court could not find any rational evidence to support the defendant's claim that he was innocent.
But by the time I became an adult, scientific thought and rational evidence led me to believe otherwise.
Maybe that would explain Mitt's conviction, against all rational evidence, that our greatest peril lies in Mother Russia.
"It's depressing to find someone who has a position at leading London hospitals who is so cut off from what research methodology is, and what rational evidence is".
We are meant to see this as a solemn parable of belief — of its capacity both to grow without rational evidence and to fester without cause.
If you just explain to a believer, the assumption goes, that they have no rational evidence for their beliefs, the believer will whack themselves on the forehead and cry: "I've been so dumb!
Using the example of the fabled Indian rope trick, Lamont aims to show, and largely succeeds, how people will believe a thing is true, despite all rational evidence to the contrary, indeed despite outright denials of its existence, if it is repeated that it is true often enough.
But it is obvious that the existing regime is failing and that a rational, evidence-led review is overdue.
Its aim was to take a rational, evidence-based view of intellectual property and ways to safeguard it.
He said: "I regret that in the Home Office, the goodwill to work collegiately to take forward rational evidence-based policy has been in somewhat short supply".
But since he has asked for rational, evidence-based policy debate, things get harder for Turnbull the deeper the opposition dives into policy.
Baker announced he had decided to stand down after a row over drugs policy with the home secretary showed there was little support for "rational evidence-based policy" in the Home Office.
