RE: Agnostic: a pointless term?
February 5, 2015 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2015 at 10:45 pm by YGninja.)
(February 5, 2015 at 10:25 pm)IATIA Wrote:Biblical Unicorns do exist, today they're called Rhinoceros.(February 5, 2015 at 5:49 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: ...a unicorn would have to exist on a planescape, as all other equines do. They would also have to have a sizable, sustainable population count. We would therefore have discovered them by now, don't you think?Not necessarily. Gorillas were myths/legends for quite some time.
Explorer Paul Du Chaillu was the first westerner to see a live gorilla during his travel through western equatorial Africa from 1856 to 1859. He brought dead specimens to the UK in 1861
(Not to suggest that I believe that unicorns exist only that the particular line of reasoning is invalid.)
At the time of the writing of the King James version, Rhinos were called Unicorns.
U'NICORN, noun [Latin unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]
1. an animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.
http://webstersdictionary1828.com
The latin is "Rhinoceros unicornis"