Thinking about the elusive unicorn...?

i see where you are going with this...you definitely make a good point....i just hope that some of the ones who refuse to see this, will listen to your case, and give it a chance. it's definitely something to ponder, for those who who are so sure that they are right.

I could believe you if you were serious. I saw a unicorn once too.

But just because you see or otherwise sense something doesn't mean it's real or that it exists. Perhaps unicorns don't exist, but can only appear to us. Mine moved like wind and vanished in some sort of solar lightning as it jumped of a cliff.

My friends still tell me I saw a pregnant albino horned doe, hence the noise it could make.

I was barefoot, still a virgin, and had just bathed naked in a mountain spring. So I am sure that had something to do with it.

But you can write it on my tombstone, it was so (ultra-)real I'll believe it forever. Unless someone captures a pregnant albino one-horned doe.

Actually I saw another Unicorn that wasn't real at all. I was in Sub-Saharan African and I was extraordinarily sick. Africa sick if you will. I just woke up and a little red and brown and black unicorn was staring at me from the door. Of course, when I rubbed by eyes I realized it was the family's pet gazelle, and that I was in Africa-I was so sick I didn't know where I was. I was seeing "single" instead of double.

In ancient times people believed unicorns were real and giraffes were obviously imaginary.

They're having this problems with Big Foot in Oklahoma right now, because so many people are seeing it. They had this problem in the past with Giant Squids, who only recently were discovered to actually exist!

What we can say, is the liklihood of Unicorns is low, but we can't rule them out 100%. It's possible they were a Galapagos type species on an Island (like Atlantis) that "sunk into the sea".

Since a unicorn would be a physical beast, I would demand physical evidence - a live one or a carcass, or a skeleton. If evidence is not produced, I would still say they don't exist. Millions of people have been deluded about many things, notably the status of various ethnicities.

I assume you are making an analogy to belief in god(s) here. The analogy breaks down since god(s) are not material beings in the normally accepted sense and physical evidence is not possible.

Without the existence of the Bible, this would be a great case for God. Unfortunately their is a common easily identified source for these claims.

If 50 people claimed to see a unicorn then someone lead in a pony with a horn glued to it, and they all said: There it is!

You would see 50 fools.

I am a Pantheist, I have a belief. I just see this argument as slightly flawed.

I've seen a unicorn.

It's ok if you don't believe me. Your disbelief doesn't make the experience any less real for me.

Many experiences are so subjective that no two people will ever perceive them identically, thus laying the grounds for mass disbelief, because even if you'd been there with me, you wouldn't have seen what I saw in quite the same way.

Am I speaking metaphorically? Possibly.

No. Dakins covers this quite well. It depends on what you are actually being asked to believe. Whilst the idea of many people being deluded is improbable, the level of improbability has to be balanced against the probability of the alternative. The Fatima thing is a good example.

It is more likely that a large number of people were mistaken than that they actually saw what they claimed. Simple application of Occam's razor.

All of the reasons for God being real are not "excuses", they are real reasons. God is real, He is everywhere and in everything. The only reason you breathe is because God allows you to do so. Movement.... All of the animals, humans, insects, plants and trees.... all prime example of the existence of God. Why would we need to live, if not for God? What would be the point in an otherwise pointless life? It just wouldn't make sense. We all have a purpose and we are all needed.

Agnostic about unicorns? Don't tell me that God is now a Unicorn! Surely now I've heard everything!

Yes, I would have the same reaction if 50 independent people said they had seen the same one. I would also have the same reaction if millions of people saw the same unicorn.

Most people are delusional in some ways.

I see unicorns often. On the Nature Channel, at The North Carolina Zoo, and in books about them, but today they are called Rhinoceroses.

~OM~