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The Leviathan was a mythical sea monster that is mentioned in the Bible that
creationists believe to have been a real animal.
Most creationists claim that the
Leviathan was a Sarcosuchus, [1] a giant relative of crocodiles that did in fact exist,
but died out 112 million years ago. Some creationists believe Leviathan could have
been a dinosaur, such as a Parasaurolophus or Corythosaurus, or a pliosaur such as
Kronosaurus.[2]

One main trait of the supposed Leviathan was that it could breathe out fire
(Job 41:1-34). Amazingly, creationists have started to suggest that Sarcosuchus and
even the hadrosaur Parasaurolophus could breathe fire![3]

Thomas Hobbes used the term to refer to a strong, absolute sovereign in his writings The imaginary beast as
on social contract theory. imagined by the
imaginative Gustave Doré.

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The Bible
1 Couldn't be true
2 In religion
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

Gabbin' with God

Couldn't be true Old / New Testament
Apocrypha
It might be argued that Leviathan could conceivably have been an extinct aquatic Annotated Bible
reptile such as a Liopleurodon — except for a single issue: pliosaurs such as
Liopleurodon became extinct some 150 million years ago. Analysis

As for the fire-breathing argument presented by creationists, if dinosaurs could Biblical contradictions
breathe fire, they would have had adaptations around their mouths to protect Bibliolatry
themselves from radiant heat. Nothing resembling such an adaptation has ever Horizontal reading
been seen. Furthermore, in order to fuel its fire breath, the animal would need to
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have an impossibly high caloric intake, since in order to expel energy in the form
of flames it would first have to go into the animal in the form of food. Another
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question is what use an aquatic Sarcosuchus would have for breathing fire; it Gematria
would have to be concluded that God gave them this purpose in anticipation that Trinity Broadcasting
millennia later, a few cranks would use it as proof that the Bible is true in all Network
particulars.
Figures
In religion Amalekites
Judas Iscariot
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The Leviathan is equated with the Sin of Envy; however, it is also described as Noah
being king over all the sons of Pride. As such, some Biblical scholars argue that
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the Leviathan is a metaphor for Satan. That, at least, is plausible. (https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?
title=Template:Biblenav&action=edit)
In the Book of Job, God is described as having "crushed the heads of the
Leviathan" and in Jewish tradition, it is believed that the Leviathan will be served alongside Behemoth as the main
course at a banquet for the righteous at the end of the world. Let's just hope "the righteous" like seafood, or not.

The Fertile Crescent mythologies that ultimately lead into the Bible frequently involve a primordial chaos (the
"waters" that God moved over and parted into Earth and sky), which in turn may be represented by a water-
dwelling serpentine beast. In a motif termed Chaoskampf by folklorists, the serpent is destroyed by a deity who
represents order, thus allowing the world to be created (sometimes from the remains of this beast). The Bible's
offhand reference to God crushing Leviathan's head is one artifact of this trope; another, much more recent
Chaoskampf is the story of St. George and the Dragon.

See also
Behemoth
Human-dinosaur coexistence
Social contract

External links
The Truth about Leviathan (http://www.stupiddinosaurlies.org/the-truth-about-leviathan/)
What Leviathan Isn't (http://www.stupiddinosaurlies.org/what-leviathan-isn-t)

References
1. CreationWiki: Leviathan Suspects (http://creationwiki.org/Leviathan#Leviathan_Suspects)
2. Gish, Duane, 1977. Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards. El Cajon, CA: Master Books, pp. 30,51-55
3. WARNING! Clicking on this link may result in uncontrollable laughter (http://creation.com/was-leviathan-a-
parasaurolophus)

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