Skeptics mockingly poke fun at the King James Bible’s mention of unicorns, accusing the Bible of being unscientific.^1,2 Such ridicule is readily refuted, however, by Hebrew vocabulary and zoological history.

The scoffer’s ridicule of unicorns relies upon this flawed reasoning:

Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. (Psalm 40:5)

The Bible contains abundant warnings against following false teaching. All of them foretell awful consequences for those who don’t test what they hear against the inerrant words of God. There is one warning in 2 Timothy, however, that uses a somewhat humorous metaphor.