As a response to: 10 points to anyone who can disprove unicorns!?
Psalms 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."
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I actually noticed this passage in my prayerboook during rosh hashanna
except that it actually said (of hills) "he makes them skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young horse"
Did the bible just prove that Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are real?
[fundie logic]
No, Psalms 29:6 says "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young "re'em" . We don't know what a "re'em" is. Neither did the KJV translators. They appear to have looked to the Septuagint, an old Greek translation, that translated it as "monoceros" - one-horned, and translated it into the closest English word they could find.
I've got many different Bible translations in newfangled electronic format in this fascinating modern computer program here, and some older translations say "unicorn" and many newer ones say "wild ox"... really funny, that!
"No, Psalms 29:6 says "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young "re'em". We don't know what a "re'em" is. Neither did the KJV translators. They appear to have looked to the Septuagint, an old Greek translation, that translated it as "monoceros" - one-horned, and translated it into the closest English word they could find." -- John
The only reference for this Semitic word outside the OT is a clay tablet from Ugarit listing animal sacrifices made to Baal in a certain year. One of the types of animals was "r'umm," which is the Ugaritic version of Hebrew "re'ummim," the plural of "re'em." It was most probably a species of wild ox, but no one is certain.
That really only proves the concept of unicorns, similar to how your belief in God and my disbelief only prove the concept of God exists.
Here's my hypothetical answer: "We haven't found any, so they don't exist to the extent of our not inconsiderable knowledge"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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