Be grateful it’s not the story of Jonah. Can you really get a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) or a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) to a Sunday school class?
I think “fish” could also include whale. How you classify animals is arbitrary. We (moderns) distinguish fish from water-dwelling mammals and/or air-breathers like whales, but I doubt that the ancients did. Whales and dolphins would be fish to them.
Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
Be grateful it’s not the story of Jonah. Can you really get a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) or a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) to a Sunday school class?
edclectic almost 11 years ago
Just don’t fetch any lawyers…
Ray_C almost 11 years ago
I think “fish” could also include whale. How you classify animals is arbitrary. We (moderns) distinguish fish from water-dwelling mammals and/or air-breathers like whales, but I doubt that the ancients did. Whales and dolphins would be fish to them.
bmonk almost 11 years ago
Still, there might be a lot left behind the animals to clean up. . . . .