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Irrational

Irrational

1. Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

2. Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it. (i. Taylor)

3. (Science: mathematics) Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; said especially of roots. See surd.

Synonym: absurd, foolish, preposterous, unreasonable, senseless. See absurd.

Origin: L. Irrationalis: cf. F. Irrationnel. See In- not, and rational.


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... members to live on inside them spiritually. I personally find it difficult to objectively justify that this behavior is wrong besides it being irrational, yet when a prion disease called kuru was found to be causing serious illness in the tribes due to the consumption of human brain, one could ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... People who share this twisted and sick idea of love with their creator come here and try to argument their case by claiming that this sadistic, irrational, unpredictible supernatural entity that loves us by letting little girls get mutilated beyond recognition has also created all what is around ...

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by biohazard
Mon May 04, 2009 7:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Bible vs Darwin

... well incredibly crafted faces on that same exact mountain." "To say the faces on that mountain were a creation of coincidence is to be irrational." I've already made a counter argument for this one, but i want to see if anybody here wants to take a shot at it first?

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by viloloco5
Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:19 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
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Re: Bible vs Darwin

... that aren't working for them, or (mis)interpret them. You can't have faith in anything and be entirely rational. Faith is the very definition of irrational. So if there are historical examples of people that said rational sounding things, that doesn't mean that they were open to ideas that contradicted ...

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by Corax
Fri May 23, 2008 5:40 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
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PETA

My father once said that animals of course except humans are irrational beings. I was able to watch a documentary film where pigs to be slaughtered for market consumption must be killed at least with less pain. Some countries use electric shock to kill ...

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by mcar
Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:18 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PETA
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