well thanks , musket , for the [qualified] compliment. I will leave other believers to explain their reasons for not believing that Jonah was swallowed by a large sea creature which God [the text tells us] had prepared for that purpose ,and which account was evidently believed by Christ - if they believe the gospels that is!.
do such believers believe that the Lord bodily rose from the dead, as those same gospels tell us. or like one [in]famous Anglican said "..a trick with bones"
and btw musket, pointing and laughing is no problem aimed at me , but it hardly constitutes creationist interpretation as being a twisting of science.
grishka- I hear what you are saying about science content, but my point is that even with basic concepts that a layman as myself, not extensively educated, can grasp the particles to people story is full of holes, not to say illogical.
the stock answer that more study and hard work will resolve this sounds like an admission that it cannot be demonstrated to be established fact. I have before quoted evolutionists admitting as much.