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S2 Ep1072: Dinosaurs, the Bible, and the Age of the Earth: Dr. Jordan Mallon

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The Myth of God Defeating the Leviathan

If the Leviathan were a dinosaur, I don't know what's so evil about any of the dinosaurs and why God would want to slay one in that way. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Plus, the Psalms, I think it's the Psalms described. Leviathan is having more than one head, multiple heads. Not one of them is known to have multiple heads. Sounds more like the dragon in Revelation 13, which is again a symbol of evil,. but God's going to slay all the birds is what he's really getting.I feel like that's just pushing the Bible too far to try and make these animals a dinosaur. We're talking 1300 species

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