god-like

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

The first man and woman break God's command and eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, and God expels them from the garden to prevent them from eating of a second tree, the Tree of Life, which would give them god-like immortality as well as god-like wisdom ; a cherub and a flaming sword at the gate bars their return.

He caused further discontent when he himself married the Vestal Virgin Aquilia Severa, claiming the marriage would produce " god-like children ".

Eri, the god-like founder of Nri, is believed to have settled the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following after in the 13th century.

In the end, Paganini's salvation — administered by a god-like Clockmaker — turns out to be imprisonment in a large bottle where he plays his music for the amusement of the public through all eternity.

So presuming there is a god-like entity consciently taking actions, we cannot comprehend the limits of a deity's powers.

Later, Mayerson discusses his experience with a neo-christian colonist and they conclude that either Eldritch became a god in the Prox system or some god-like being has taken his place.

The Tyrathca praise it as a god, yet they are a species incapable of fiction, thus implying some true god-like ability.

Often viewed in the Italy of the time as a god-like figure, Mazzini was nonetheless denounced by many of his compatriots as a traitor.

In opposition to the Senate, in his pronouncements and iconography, Commodus had always laid stress on his unique status as a source of god-like power, liberality and physical prowess.

In the spring of 1968, a massive campaign began, aimed at promoting the already-adored Mao Zedong to god-like status.

Many years previously, she had been betrothed to " a god-like youth " who turned out to be Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore.

The extent of the Phoenix Force's god-like abilities has not been fully clarified.

The Egyptians used the plant for more than its stimulating effects ; they used it for transcending into " apotheosis ", with the intent of making the user god-like.

Planets of the Dead are nominally forbidden to both the Culture and the Idirans, being under the control of god-like incorporeal beings called Dra ' Azon.

In a confrontation with Tefe, Swamp Thing explains that he has cut himself off from the Green, and there seems to be no trace of the god-like powers he acquired from the parliaments of air, waves, stone or flames during the Millar run.

The practices of these groups centered on building elaborate mock-ups of airplanes and military landing strips in the hope of summoning the god-like airplanes that had brought marvelous cargo during the war.

The leader might be given, for example, a mythical supernatural life history in order to make him or her seem god-like and supra-powerful ( see also cult of personality ).

Sigmund had more god-like blood in him than Sinfjötli, so Sigmund could withstand the poison, and Sinfjötli could not.

They appear as bosses through out the most recent additions of the series, and due to their durability and ability to cast fire magic, they are perceived as immortal god-like entities.

* Michio Kaku, in a lecture, said that in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the god-like Q Continuum could be considered above Type IV drawing their energy from outside the universe.

In " Encounter at Farpoint ", the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard informs Q, a trickster with god-like powers similar to the antagonist in the aforementioned " Squire of Gothos " episode, that 24th century humans no longer had any need to depend upon or worship god figures.