Sentences with phrase «great deluges»

You might be surprised to find out that there are virgin births in 16 dead religions and three persistent ones (not including Christianity), great deluges in 28 other religions, raising of the dead and walking on water in nearly every major religion since 4400 BC.

Great deluge stories exist in the mythologies of many civilizations.

Chad: The fact that the story of a Great Deluge happened to be popular in the region is no surprise, but that does not prove that «god did it» or that «the WHOLE WORLD» was flooded.

Zeus Kreiszchte «The fact that the story of a Great Deluge happened to be popular in the region is no surprise, but that does not prove that «god did it» @Chad «good point, it's popular because it actually happened, looks like you are acknowledging that... does nt prove that God did it, however, it does demonstrate that the bible is accurate, and that your comment about it being «ripped off» from some other ancient tale is nonsense..

«Russell Crowe has simply never been better» (Pete Hammond, Movieline) as the title character who takes on the monumental task of building the legendary ark, saving the chosen few and surviving the great deluge.

Turning painting into architecture, these works essentially function as political cartoons, populated by figures such as Barbara Bush, 20th - century religious prophet Aleister Crowley, and Dan Quayle, with themes ranging from the seven deadly sins and the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the great deluge.

«NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE / Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents»

«Next Great Deluge Forecast by Science --» Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents»» — The New York Times, May 15, 1932

However, by simply saying that «climate change is real», a variety of activists, researchers and politicians can deliver a great deluge of non-sequiturs about sea - level rise, species extinction, drought, famine, resources wars and so on.

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, (New York, NY: Morrow, 2006) HV 636 B75

Not exact matches

We are getting deluged in California... so its been great to hunker down and make all this warm comfort food!

«Mommy, where were you during the Great Email Deluge of 2014?»

In his 1864 book Man and Nature (original title: Man the Disturber of Nature's Harmonies), George Perkins Marsh catalogued numerous examples of changing climate conditions on losing forests and wrote, «When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold [humus] is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted.

He viewed the accumulation, organization, and utilization of this data deluge as the next step in the evolution of scientific exploration, and was utterly dedicated to the idea that data - intensive computing would help solve some of society's greatest challenges.

F. Murray Abraham's Robert Crawford deluges his students with academic outpourings on great literature and all other manner of topics Forrester despises.

And the 1970s, as is well documented, was a decade deluged with great American auteurs — Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Alan Pakula, Martin Scorsese — and William Friedkin, amongst them.

Agreed, part of that problem is related to the legislatures own hesitance in trying to counter the constant deluge of misinformation about taxes, income inequality, education, and social serves that emerges from right wing think [sic] tanks, talk radio, most of the «punditry,» and the neo-liberal water - carriers of the malefactors of great wealth.

For more specific information regarding Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy in the Great Flood, check out the guidelines page for that anthology.

Finally, we're proud to announce that Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy in the Great Flood is available in print.

There is always a price to pay for any delay, and there certainly is no exception with the case of Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy in the Great Flood.

The most asked question the garden gnomes have received in the past two months is, When will Deluge: Stories of Survival and Tragedy in the Great Flood come out?

Allen Taylor submitted Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy in the Great Flood designed by Alexandre Rito.

Like the majority of shoot - em - ups released during the Great Shmup Deluge of the 80s and Early 90s, Heavy Unit is forgotten today.

Each year, E3 is home to a deluge of great game announcements and memorable reveal trailers.

It's a bullet deluge and pixel typhoon in the brothers Doucette's third and greatest homage to a pillar of classic gaming that even Taito's own updatethe excellent Space Invaders Extremefails to match in terms of sheer awesome.

It's a bullet deluge and pixel typhoon in the brothers Doucette's third and greatest homage to a pillar of classic gaming that even Taito's own update, the excellent Space Invaders Extreme, fails to match in terms of sheer awesome.

Dexter Dalwood's work The Deluge is included in the great exhibition Fighting History at the Tate Britain from 9 June — 13 September 2015.

That said, there are examples more recent than the Biblical Great Flood which might be more helpful when considering the issue of the Keystone Pipeline — namely, the deluge of oil that spilled in Mayflower, Arkansas earlier this month.

At the time of its launch in March 2003, the institute had great ambitions for the center claiming that it «will enlist the help of world - renowned scientists to serve as a resource for Members of Congress, administrative agencies, and the media to evaluate the deluge of scientific findings that so often drives public policy.»

A flood of great PC games released in September, and that's just the start of the fall gaming deluge.

The government's plans for remote communities, which have caused great anxiety in communities and major protests across the country under the #SOSBlakAustralia banner, went yesterday from a drip - feed of information in the media and Parliament to a relative deluge.