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Atheists also mock the Bible for speaking of "unicorns" (Numbers 23:22,
24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9-10, Psalms 22:21, 29:6, 92:10, Isaiah
34:7), which they assume to be the mythical horned horse to which

"unicorn" refers often today. First of all, no one can prove there never was a
species of horse with a horn on its head, but that isn't what the Bible is
referring to. The word "uni-corn" is Latin for "one-horn" and has in the past
been used to refer to any animal with one horn. The unicorn described in the
Bible sounds like the one-horned rhinoceros called Rhinoceros unicornis.
These are still alive today in parts of India. According to the Oxford English
Dictionary, the word unicorn was used to refer to the one-horned rhinoceros
as early as 1398 (more than 200 years before the King James Bible was

translated). It was thus defined as late as 1828. (Compare definitions for
"unicorn" and "rhinoceros" in the original edition of Noah Webster's
American Dictionary of the English Language.) The unicorn in the Bible
could also be Elasmotherium Sibiricum, an extinct species of one-horned
rhinoceros that scientists call "The Giant Unicorn." This species would
match the description of the Bible's unicorn even better. Even the King
James translators testified to this with a marginal note for Isaiah 34:7 in the

1611 edition that says the word for "unicorn" could also be translated as
"Rhinoceros."

DRAGONS

For the same reason as the "unicorn," atheists mock the Bible for speaking of
"dragons." The devil has had a couple hundred years to train people to
think of "unicorns" and "dragons" as mythological creatures. Satan can't

destroy the real Bible (because God promised to preserve His word), so he
destroys other things to taint people's perception of the real Bible.

The word "dragon" in the Bible appears to refer to any large or monstrous
reptile (Jeremiah 51:34), often serpentine to varying degrees (Revelation
20:2), on land or in water (Psalms 148:7); especially territorial reptiles with
a bad temperament. (Ezekiel 29:3, Jeremiah 49:33) The fact that this

includes the animals now referred to as "dinosaurs" is supported by much
more evidence than can be shown on an atheist's porch. (See Appendix 2)