Henke 2022cf
Demons and Sperm Donors
Kevin R. Henke
September 15, 2022
In Henke (2022b), I stated the following:
“Rather than recognizing the virgin birth of Romulus as nothing more than a made-up story, Lundahl (2022a) again suggests that it might have happened and that a demon could have been responsible. Lundahl (2022a) again shows his inability to separate out real history from likely mythology that involves angels, demons and other supernatural beings. This is part of a superstitious mindset that sees demons almost everywhere instead of recognizing that fertile human imaginations are more than capable of making up stories and that these stories can become popular with gullible audiences.” [my emphasis]
Lundahl (2022m) comments on the bolded clause by rambling on about sperm donors:
“Here is what doctors can do:
Born through MAP, “she had to find her donor at any price. Her life depended on it”. Today, Sarah is 25 years old. In 2013, after a bitter 4-year struggle, the German legal system finally granted her the right to find out the identity of her donor. This sounds extremely promising for Sophie, Béatrice, Romain and Raphaël in France, all of whom were conceived through sperm donation and who want to find out the identity of the biological father or, as Sophie put it: “I would just like to give human aspects to this person, and not just regard him as someone who donated his sperm in a test tube. “
The actually sole means the doctors use are replacing physical objects, notably male sperm. Demons can do the same, supposing they exist. And Romulus, Perseus, women found pregnant after dreams of satyrs or incubi, and so on are recorded instances of this occurring, suggesting that in fact they do exist.”
MAP = Medically assisted procreation. Here, Lundahl (2022m) is committing a huge non-sequitur fallacy (Copi and Cohen 1994, pp. 132, 155, 707). Yes, MAP is a medical fact among modern humans. However, Romulus, Perseus, and demons procreating are not. They are groundless stories. Lundahl (2022m) cannot use the fact of modern medically assisted procreation to suggest that, if demons exist, they can procreate.
References
Copi, I.M. and Cohen, C. 1994. Introduction to Logic, 9th ed., MacMillan Publishing Company: New York, USA, 729 pp.