I believe the story to be a romance and nothing more. It doesn't really matter if it was a large fish or a whale, since it's fiction.

Oh by the way, you should never prove something to a skeptic by using as proof what the person is already skeptical about. The guy in the 2nd link uses the bible to prove Jonah really existed by quoting the bible.



"If Homosexuals went back into the closet, then there would be no more Homosexuality in this world" - Tom DeLay, US Congressman R-TX