Reinforcing the long standing,
rational position of environmentalists, the Kenyan work demonstrates that malaria infection rates are not best controlled by merely encouraging widespread DDT use.
Folks, note that Chad's statement, «it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect» is either stupidity or just more of him being intentionally obtuse (insufficient evidence = no belief
= rational position).
The grea [t] ambition for the Internet as a communicative medium is that it can facilitate not only access to information and data but also the possibility of narrative exchange and collective will formation — the opportunity to become informed, to argue and to reach reasoned and
rational positions which might become part of a public sphere consensus.
Since the burden of proof is on the person making the god claim and there is NO evidence to support that claim then it is the
only rational position to state that a god does not exist.
The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from
a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.
Claiming a god exists is absolutely a positive statement of false knowledge, but saying we can't know, don't know, and that we as an individual don't have enough evidence to make a positive statement on any gods existance, that's
a rational position to take.
Since we can not prove beyond all reasonable doubt that God is,
the rational position is not to live as though God does not exist but to live as though God does exist.
Rather than starting from a faith position, the Church starts from an empirical,
rational position.
The only coherent and
rational position is agnosticism.
Graham Lawton states: «The only coherent and
rational position is agnosticism.»
On
a rational positioning, we are offering forward - looking technologies that set us apart in the industry, such as autonomous drive functions.
The only writers in
a rational position to freely choose to self - publish come in two forms.
Isn't that simply
the rational position to take?
As for me, I'm learning that taking
a rational position somewhere in between two stupid extremes simply gets you toasted by both sides.