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Do you believe in the Leviathan?


There has been a lot of discussion as to whether or not Atlantis was a real place, but what about the Leviathan? I'm curious to see what people think about it.
Now obviously I don't mean a giant war machine like in this film, but legends have been going around for centuries about giant sea monsters. Heck, look at the Kraken: Sailors used to talk about a giant tentacled monster that science said "No, no, no" to. Now, science has proven the Giant Squid.
Personally, I think there could be something underwater that we haven't discovered yet, either because it lives so deep underwater or because it hibernates for long periods of time. It most likely won't be some awe-inspiring creature of Cloverfield proportions but who knows, really.
And this isn't meant to promote my religion but in the Book of Job Chapter 41, God talks about the "Leviathan" which sounds like a sea monster or something.

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As a Christian I believe the Leviathan probably existed at least during the time of the Bible. I don't know if I believe it exists anymore. Plus, as you say there have been so many stories about sea monsters that I think it's very possible it wasn't a myth

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I don't know if THEE Leviathan of legend ever existed, but I was doing research on ancient deep sea creatures from the prehistoric age, and I read somewhere that scientist DID find the top half skull of some sort of sea creature. The skull was over 60 feet long from the nose to the back of the skull. Is this the Leviathan, some people scientists say yes, other say know, others say it's the creature the real thing is based off of. According to legend, the actual Leviathan was a sea serpent so long that it could circle halfway around the earth, and God killed its mate because if more Leviathan were born it would have meant the end of all other life on Earth. Oh, and here's a fun fact, according to legend, the Leviathan's land counterpart, the Behemoth, was so big that it ate mountains.

As for the Kraken, I'm skeptical. Scientists even admit that they're not completely convinced the Kraken didn't at one point exist. And there has been evidence. Whales have been discovered with suction cup markings on their body the size of dinner plates, which are much larger than even the giant squid's. Again, I doubt that THEE Kraken, an octopus-like creatures that's two and a half miles long, according to legend, was real, but some type of sea creature.

Some of you are probably rolling your eyes at what I'm saying, but it's very possible when you consider the fact that the moon has been explored more than the sea floor. In fact, according to marine biologists, only about 3% of the ocean floor has been discovered, and the deepest discovered trench is 6 miles below sea level. There's no telling how many undiscovered "sea monsters" and other things are lurking below. There are even scientists that believe that mermaids are real, or at least humanoid creatures that mermaids are based off of (they call them aquatic apes, which are supposedly a different evolutionary direction Neanderthals took).

But getting back to Leviathan and Kraken, some of you are still probably rolling your eyes about creatures of such size ever existing. Well, I'm sure you all know about the giant shark, the Megalodon (about 40-60 feet long), but did you know that an even larger shark less known about shark was discovered. It's called the Tamiglia (I think that's how it's spelled), and it's name means "the one who swallows whales", because it was actually big enough to swallow whales whole. This is no legend either, but an actual discovery.

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The description of the Leviathan in Job is probably just a poetical description of a crocodile.

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