Leviathan, from the book of Job, was a dinosaur

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Leviathan, described in Job 41 and mentioned in Psalms 104:26, describes a dinosaur like Parasaurolophus or Tyrannosaurus rex, a sauropod such as Apatosaurus, or a plesiosaur such as Kronosaurus.

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  1. Dinosaurs were terrestral animals that the vast majority of their lives on land, unlike Leviathan which was a wholly aquatic sea monster. The word "Leviathan" comes from the Hebrew word meaning "twisted" or "coiled." No dinosaur could ever twist or coiled itself the way a snake does.
  2. None of the marine reptiles, not even Kronosaurus, had any armor plating on their bodies and none of them could ever have coiled up like a snake, either. According to the passage, Leviathan is said to have crocodile-like scales that formed an impenetrable armor, which is why Christian tradition viewed this animal as the one described as Leviathan in Job 41. Plus, in Psalms 104:26, the world "Leviathan" here is actually translated as "whale" such as the blue whale being seen frolicing among the ships even to this very day, not the Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous pliosaur, which no one has ever seen alive at all. AIG has recently disavowed their identification with a dinosaur of the image found in their so-called ministry cards as well as found in The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! on page 38, agreeing with the non-creationist world that it is the rotting corpse of a basking shark. Now they even insist that those in possession of this photo stop claiming it to be a dinosaur, as their own examination of the decomposed material does not support this notion.
  3. Creationists who claim that Leviathan was a dinosaur or marine reptile such as Kronosaurus, fail to notice that in the Book of Psalms, Leviathan is described as having seven heads. No dinosaur (or any other vertebrate known) had seven heads.

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References

  1. Day, John, 1992. Leviathan. In David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, New York: Doubleday, vol 4, pp. 295-296.
  2. Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job.(http://www.bookofjob.org) An entire online commentary with an extensive section on the mythical nature of Leviathan.
  3. The Genesis Panthesis website that has an article refuting the claim about Leviathan being a dinosaur [1]
  4. The Truth About Leviathan
  5. Dinosaurs_by_Design/Dinosaurs_Those_Terrible_Lizards
  6. Answers in Genesis on basking sharks [2]

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