Sentences with phrase «than a snake in»

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In a field that's long struggled to prove scientific doubters wrong (and attracted more than a few charlatans selling snake oil), Laberge's efforts have been enough to attract serious investors like Cenovus Energy and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

It's that connection that causes those drive - through lines to snake down the street: Tims scored highest among all brands in the survey's «citizenship» category, meaning its ties to communities have helped forge a bond stronger than a cup of coffee.

I respect that way more than you snake handlers who cry out that if you don't believe in just the right way, you go to hell.

If the talking snake and invisible guy in the sky who can make people out of magical ribs didn't change your mind than nothing will.

Other than an old collection of supersti.tions and stories about talking snakes, burning bushes that speak, and commands to kill each other in the name of your imaginary sky ogre, you have none.

Me, I have more things to worry about than those snakes — I have rattlesnakes to dodge when I go Steelhead fishing in the summer, and darned if those satans ain't out in force.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Im at the opposite end of being a liberal, further right than the GOP has been in 50 years, and can say proudly christians deserve to be mocked, you believe in talking snakes and guys living in whales stomachs.

i want to disappear into the city, i feel safer in Times Square on New Years Eve anonymous, than I do around my family or ex lovers, who are venemous snakes that I still try to forgive for a lifetime of hell.

Is it funnier than talking donkeys and snakes, a boat carrying all the animals of the Earth, a man surviving 3 days in the belly of a fish, burning bushes and manna machines?

The snake oil salesmen in The Babble are all men because The Babble was put together by men in a time when women were considered less than equal.

Yes of course, they are far more confused than people who believe in verbally expressive faming shrubbery, snakes with the ability to speak, women who get pregnant miraculously, people who can do the aqua moon walk and zombies rising from the dead.

In this short clip, iguanas run for their lives from a pack of hungry snakes, and the action is better than anything you'll see from Hollywood.

This in your face I'm better than you because I'm a Christian who uses the term The Lord Jesus Christ blah blah blah and so on are killing our faith in a world where people are more laid back and want nothing to do with some snake oil religious sales person.

Atheists can prove that science exists, that the earth is more than 6000 years old, that their is NO WAY to build the size ark that Noah built and do what is claimed in the bible, again when making extraordinary claims, we need evidence and we know that snakes do not talk, that the laws of physics can not be suspended and that nearly EVERY claim in the bible is false.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... Makes much more sense than Mormonism.

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

ps; A magic apple in a magic garden guarded by a talking snake sounds more like a Disney movie than world history.

Yes, but that's coming from a book that describes dragons, co.ckatrices, talking snakes and donkeys, mass zombie outbreaks, and a god who's so stupid he has to continually adjust his «perfect» plan by finding loopholes so that he can sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself so that he doesn't torture more than 99.999 % of his creation in a never - ending torture pit he made for his own enjoyment.

Yes because those normal jesustards who believe in talking snakes and magic apples are to be taken far more seriously than a jesustard with a tat.

If that's where you start, everything forward has an excellent chance of being nothing more than the same self - confirmation that Mencken's Tennessee snake worshipers indulged in.

Open your mind and open a book, other than some several thousand year - old fairy tale about talking snakes, floods requiring more water than exists in the entire solar system to create, mythological heaven dwellers who stole men's wives, ful of numerology and suppossed «fulfilled prophesy».

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

2016 is the year it has become cooler to be seen in a running outfit at the school gates than a Celine one; Where clean eating books are outselling Jamie Oliver books; Where the queues at our local Whole Foods snake around the aisles making it practically impossible to shop.

A home game against the bottom club in the Premier League, whose confidence must be lower than a snake's bellybutton, is just about the ideal opportunity for Jack to get closer to his scoring target.

An owner who is more invisible than the Loch Ness Monster and about as interested in winning, a manager who disrespects and ignores the whole concept of defence (oh for GEORGE GRAHAM) and a chairman who openly admits to preferring horse racing and a chief exec (Gazidis) who is a snake and inveterate liar.

They may seem dangerous with snakes and bugs and so many trees all around [especially here in Australia], but it's so much easier to keep everyone together and leaves / sticks / rocks are far more entertaining & educational than play equipment.

Snake - print leather straps and side button allows you to wear it cuffed or uncuffed, so they'll be in style longer than just 1 season.

It would snake along GOP towns from the old industrial city of Amsterdam in Montgomery County, through Albany's suburbs, to just outside Poughkeepsie, more than 100 miles away.

The conclusion is that many of these noncoding regions of DNA should be more broadly categorized as «appendage enhancers» rather than «limb enhancers,» and snakes may have retained these noncoding DNA elements due to their role in phallus development.

Snakes are ectotherms, so their relationship to climate is a lot more direct than, say, mammals, so we know [the climate impacts] in a much more straightforward way,» said Polly.

He and his colleagues wanted to see whether certain risk factors might make these species more susceptible to the disease than the dozens of other types of snakes that live in the region.

Unfortunately it costs a lot more to banish unwanted pests now than it did in St Patrick's day, so introduction of snakes would be a very expensive mistake.»

«In general I would say the snakes aren't going to bother you if you don't bother them,» Laita says, but with «some you can't do much more than say goodbye.»

In a major paper last year, researchers called this rare fossil from more than 100 million years ago the first known four - legged snake.

On a nanoscale level, the scales on a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers wide.

Slowinski specialized in the evolutionary relationships of neurotoxic snakes, making more than 10 forays into Myanmar to study them.

The lack of such a therapeutic is part of the reason that more than 100,000 people a year die from snake bites, mostly in Africa and Southeast Asia.

And rather than independently ratchet the sides of the jaw backward and forward like most snakes, Kley's videos revealed that both sides of the lower jaw moved in synchrony.

When an alien species enters a new ecosystem, it can alter the environment in a number of ways: by eating native species (in its 50 years on Guam, the Australian brown tree snake has eliminated 9 of 13 native bird species); by spreading disease among them (introduced birds in Hawaii thrive in part because they are far less susceptible to the avian malaria parasite, also an introduced species, than native birds are); or by altering the environment in such a way that favors themselves (like melaleuca, an Australian tree that is spreading through the Everglades in part by changing the frequency and intensity of fires).

Because the condition occurs in response to environmental influences rather than genetic mutations, this snake is not a «mutant», but merely a «freak».

Another engraving of a horned snake measures more than 30 metres in length.

The team has radio - tracked more than two dozen adult pine snakes in recent field seasons.

«As the authors point out, parasitoid venoms act in a much subtler, more fine - tuned manner than the better known predatory or defensive venoms of things like snakes, spiders or cone shells.»

«[It] has a single row of belly scales, it has very snake - like vertebrae, it has a body longer than the tail, it has hundreds of vertebrae, it has the remains of other vertebrate animals in the stomach and so it was a carnivore, it has backward pointing teeth.

It culminated in 26 arrests, with more than 400 animals — including endangered turtles and venomous snakes — taken into custody as evidence.

Robots that act like snakes rather than tanks may be our best chance to save some people stuck in rubble.

The researchers found that Calabar skin was 15 times thicker and orders of magnitude harder to pierce than that of any other snake tested, they report in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Morphology.