Just Because a Billion People Believe a Story That’s No Reason to Accept It as History
Kevin R. Henke
November 23, 2022
The title of Henke (2022bp) is “Snake Biology and Genesis 3”. In Henke (2022bp), I quoted the following statement from Lundahl (2022k):
“I took in Bishop Challoner's comment on Bileam's ass in order to clarify that the biology of snakes is irrelevant, the claim if true involves an angel vocalising something as coming through a snake.”
I then commented on this statement in Henke (2022bp):
“Sure, Mr. Lundahl, Bishop Challoner or anyone else can always invoke angels or other magical and imaginary beings, and then just pretend to solve any problem. This is like saying: “I know that the family traditions of my great, great, great, grandfather’s dog speaking to him are true because the invisible fairies vocalized the speech.” Again, Lundahl (2022k) is just making up groundless excuses for how a Talking Snake might exist and not providing any evidence whatsoever that the snake actually existed.” [my emphasis]
Rather than deal with the really important issues that are discussed in Henke (2022bp), Lundahl (2022x) chooses to only comment on my bolded sentence:
“If you said that within your family already having the tradition of that dog speaking to his master, fine.
But only for your family (are your nieces accepting this story as family tradition?)
For the rest of us, there is no public knowledge of this tradition within your family and so the example could be an entirely fictitious counterexample, not because it involves an angel vocalising, but because it involves sth of which I and most of the rest of the world had no knowledge as being a traditional claim. You must respect that so far your family is not all that well known to the rest of the world.”
Again, Mr. Lundahl fails to tell us what a “sth” is (Henke 2022kt; Henke 2022Le). Mr. Lundahl needs to realize that any story or tradition that does not have a shred of supporting evidence should not be accepted as fact no matter whether one person believes it or a billion.