Brief Biography of

Dave E. Matson

Name: Dave Erick Matson

Born (YYYY.MM.DD): 1947.07.04

Occupation: Former computer programmer for Hughes Aircraft Company (El Segundo, Long Beach)

Degrees:

• B.A. Mathematics, San Diego State University (unknowingly one course short for a second degree in the sciences!)

Publications:

1. Bible Errors: A Sampling From 4 Topics, originally printed by Dan Pezze & the Complimentary Copy Press (New Jersey). A 47-page, sky-blue, stapled booklet, nicely formatted, that really hammers its 4 subjects: 1) Peter's Denials of Christ (the Gospel contradictions are laid out in parallel and deeply analyzed); 2) Biblical Harmony: Hosea vs. Kings; 3) Those Who Went to Heaven (more contradictions); 4) A Very Great City (Nineveh's size is hopelessly exaggerated in the Bible. A dozen pages devastate the usual defenses). Along the way the nature of contradictory error in the real world is explored.
2. How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? (120 pages, the 1995 version was revised in 1998. The original, much smaller version was created to aid Ed Babinski in his debate with Kent Hovind.) It is also on the Talk Origins website. I take Kent Hovind's creationist challenges to the Earth's old age and biological evolution right out of his notebook!)
3. Common Sense Versus The Bible (an 85-page, coil-bound, green booklet which I still read from time to time as it was such a joy to write. So devastating! I believe you are adding this booklet to the Internet Infidel publications.)
4. Monograph: Ezekiel's Prophecy of Tyre: a failed prophecy (Its 15 pages provide an in-depth debunking of a major Bible prophecy + bibliography.)
5. Monograph: Calculating Those Odds (A fun blow-out of those "impossible" odds for evolution that creationists often come up with. I show how easily a vastly "improbable" design can arise.)
6. Monograph: A Few Sedimentary Problems For Noah's Flood (I explore the hilarious problems that an asteroid impact at Chicxulub presents for Noah's flood. 5 pages.)
7. Monograph: On Taking the Bible and Noah's Flood Literally (A touch of Babylonian cosmology plus heavy-duty common sense.)
8. Monograph: Errors of Reasoning (a handy list with a little Latin and careful explanations, 10 pages and a short bibliography)
9. Poem: The Flood (3-page poem on the moral bankruptcy of Noah's Flood)
10. The Bauble Box: A Collection of Short Gems Written for The Freethought Exchange: Morality; The Law of the Jungle (The true basis for morality means that God cannot be the source.), God Doesn't Like Robots (on the free will defense and addressed to the San Diego Bible Students), a tough freethinker puzzle, Reins! Reins! What About Brains? (The biblical, anatomical confusion about kidneys), A Short, Spicy Reply to Hellfire Tracts, Pascal's Wager, That Old Problem of Evil (a thoroughly fun romp), Hell In a Peanut Shell (another fun romp), Does Christianity Lead to Moral Superiority?, My short poem "Doubt."
11. Three-Dimensional Chess: the theory (An early, Microsoft app allowed me to draw the various theoretical moves for the pieces, thus making this exploratory book possible. I concluded in this short book that a faithful, playable version of 3-D chess is impossible. A copy was sent to the White Library (?) a major repository of chess material in Cleveland, Ohio.
12. Knot Refresher—Remembering a Few Useful and Interesting Knots: (I wrote this book to have a really decent way to remember about 40 knots! I added it to The Oak Hill Free Press publications.)
13. The Faulty Logic Behind the Defense of Divinely Inspired Biblical Massacres (Published as a Kiosk Article 2013)
14. Monograph: The Bible is Very Much a Flat-Earth Book (An 8-page work with drawings that detail and categorize the Babylonian cosmos of Genesis I and other verses in the Old Testament. On the first page is a photo of David Presutta's excellent book "The Biblical Cosmos" which reflects and aided my own lengthy research.
15. Prayer: A Popular Delusion (Freethought Perspective; April 1999)
16. The Chronology of Daniel 1:1 (The Skeptical Review, July/August 2001)
17. Book Review: Taking a Look At "The Evolution Handbook" (I thoroughly busted Vance Ferrell's lengthy book attacking evolution.)
18. Comments on the September 2006 issue of Awake! (A special issue of the Jehovah's Witnesses' publication that was devoted to a slick attack on evolution. A copy of my reply that thoroughly debunked their nonsense was sent to them. I never heard from them!)