[kosta50]

I’ve understood unicorns to be white.

But could they be pink like flamencos?

Otherwise, should they exist at all, I doubt unicorns can exist on Jupiter, given the gravitational and atmospheric conditions there existent

So, the only existence is in the form found in temperate conditions? Why? There are soft-tissue animals living in the deepest regions of the Pacific Ocean, a couple of miles deeper than Mt. Everest is high!

They live conditions of excessive pressure, darkness, cold, or heat (in volcanic openings on the sea floor). There are living organisms found in acid media in the Yellowstone Park where our "normal" living organisms, including us, would be terribly damaged and killed.

Our stomach lining produces acid that dissolve bone, and even tougher material, yet it is resistant to it.

So far as we know, unicorns (talking or otherwise) do not exist, whereas serpents and donkeys are anything but mythical.

So are talking snakes, talking donkeys and people living inside a fish  stomach (in absence of air, bathed in hydrochloric acid, and subjected to crushing smooth muscle contractions) for days and then being able to tell about it! (mental note: Jesus apparently believed the story of  Noah according to the Bible)

But, you seem to feel you have to double down on your proposition to make it “fantastic” enough for it to be suitable to your purposes.

Well, it is just as fantastic, if not more, than the pink unicorns on Jupiter, especially since there is no other recording of animals possessing (a) speech and (b) human intellect, except in the Bible.

That may be because you have yet to find anyone, at least of Judeo-Christian belief, who hold that their religion is “based” on snakes and donkeys who talk.

Well, without the talking snake in the Garden there is no sin, and without  sin there is no death, and without death there is no need for a Savior. And you tell me the belief in a talking snake is not central, better yet essential, to Christianity?

[YHAOS]

“There are soft-tissue animals living in the deepest regions of the Pacific Ocean, a couple of miles deeper than Mt. Everest is high!”

So . . . are unicorns to be found cavorting under more than five miles of ocean water (speaking of fantastic tales)?

“So are talking snakes, talking donkeys and people living inside a fish stomach (in absence of air, bathed in hydrochloric acid, and subjected to crushing smooth muscle contractions) for days and then being able to tell about it!” (presumably mythical?)

For example, the story of Jonah and the great fish (a favorite target of scripture scoffers) provides a literal lesson in obedience, willingness of spirit, gratitude, repentance, compassion, and God’s patience and mercy, even if we do not understand how Jonah could spend three days in the belly of a great fish. Scoffers would have us focus on a great fish (watch the birdie) and declare the whole story a “myth.” Central to the story is a lesson in obedience, willingness of spirit, gratitude, repentance, compassion, and God’s patience and mercy . . . not a great fish.

“Well, without the talking snake in the Garden there is no sin . . .”

Reportedly, some men blame it all on the woman. You seem to blame it on that poor serpent. Both of you, it seems to me, miss the point of the story (speaking of watch the birdie).