![]() ![]() The Reapers employ servants who are often altered into synthetic-organic life forms. ![]() The Reapers and their technology are capable of brainwashing organic life through a mind control process called indoctrination. Within the series, the Reapers cause galactic-level mass extinctions every fifty-thousand years. The design of the Reapers was inspired by H. The Reapers are a fictional fleet of sentient starships that serve as the main antagonists of the Mass Effect trilogy. 44 (2).3D model of a Reaper Destroyer, as presented in The Art of the Mass Effect Universe (2012). Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.Ĭite this article: Brian Thomas, Ph.D. What was leviathan? Unfortunately, no living or fossil example seems to provide an exact match, but hints from history support the accuracy of Scripture’s leviathan. Cooper also relates Pliny’s note of a washed-up carcass with 120 teeth, each between 9 and 6 inches long, and Pausanius’ mention of “an enormous sea monster’s skull which was kept at a sanctuary in Asklepios.” 3 Many other accounts, plus paintings and carvings, convey encounters with monstrous marine reptiles. Marcus Scaurus transported and displayed the bones in Rome’s largest theatre around 64 B.C. The monster was over forty feet long, and the height of its ribs was greater than that of Indian elephants, while its spine was 1-1/2 feet thick. The bones of this monster, to which Andromeda was said to have been exposed, were brought by Marcus Scaurus from Joppa in Judaea during his aedileship and shown at Rome among the rest of the amazing items displayed. In his book The Authenticity of the Book of Jonah, historian Bill Cooper relayed a passage from Pliny the Elder’s Natural History: However, leviathan bones may have been on display in ancient Rome. ![]() Maybe no fossils of the created leviathan kind have yet been described. Some suggest leviathan was like the super-croc Sarcosuchus. ![]() And could their flippers have pulled their streamlined bodies onto shore like a leviathan? Plesiosaurs might have been large enough, and they had necks and nostrils, but their heads seem too small to convey the awe that leviathan’s head did. Mosasaurs had huge toothy mouths and were 45 feet long, but their fossils don’t indicate much of a neck. Ichthyosaurs looked like dolphins-too small for leviathan. Since neither myth nor croc satisfies the Bible’s specific description, could leviathan have been a creature that is now extinct? Creation scientists have searched for fossils that match leviathan but without much success. While crocodiles do match several of leviathan’s attributes, they fall short of disrupting shipping lanes, breathing fire, generating luminescent wakes, being utterly unapproachable, and having impenetrable hides. Some Bible translation notes and even conservative commentaries identify leviathan as a crocodile. But since the Bible has proven itself true over centuries of scrutiny, the leviathan must have really lived. Identifying leviathan as a myth smuggles in the destructive idea that anything in Scripture could be interpreted as a myth. In fact, leviathan must have really done these things for God to meaningfully compare it to His own might. Metaphors don’t deflect spears or scare the daylights out of onlookers. These historical hints from the Bible refute the idea that leviathan was a mythical creature that was being used as a literary metaphor. From Psalm 104 we learn that leviathan played around in ancient shipping lanes. The most complete description of leviathan comes from Job 41 and includes these observations: It lived in the sea but sometimes came on shore, had a scaly hide that deflected spears, was huge and terrifying, breathed fire, left luminescent wakes, and had a neck, nose, and a mouth with terrorizing teeth. Was it real, and if so, what was it? Historical hints help answer these questions. Scripture describes leviathan as a titanic terror roaming the ancient seas. ![]()
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