Donald Wayne Stoner

Don Stoner Extraordinary evidence exists everywhere: The big bang (something from nothing); the first cell (complex life from non-life); punctuated evolution (information accumulation exceeding the population-mutation rate); sentience (awareness from nano-electro-mechanics); logic/morality (obvious is/ought causality reversal). These require no more proof than that we observe them to exist. Theories to explain this extraordinary evidence can rightly be debated. Such theories necessarily make extraordinary claims.

Hi, I'm Don Stoner, physicist, EE, software engineer, and author. Online Resume

To avoid confusion with other Don Stoners on the web, I have no connections with sports of any kind and am not the late Donald L. Stoner (W6TNS) of radio and antenna fame.

(Try Starting Here) Gadgets: Videos:
Rubik's TouchCube Church Planter Podcast QM Part 1
Organizations: Levitation Arts Levitator Church Planter Podcast QM Part 2
Gideons International Learn How Computers Work Church Planter Podcast QM Part 3
Released Time Music Transposing Wheel Church Planter Podcast QM Part 4
Epimetheus Society Theology: (High-Energy) Take two of C.P.Podcast QM Part 4
Noble Purpose Finding God (Discussion) (Watch Old-Earth PowerPoint)
Patents: Historical Context for Genesis (Watch Historical-Context P.Point)
US Patent 4,611,996 The Bible and the value of π Misc.:
US Patent 4,768,195 God was (and is) the Logic Understanding Men and Women
US Patent 7,448,935 Can God make a rock he can't lift? A Silly Poem I wrote
Math/Science: Anti Life & Anti Choice (abortion) Pictures: Sailing, Flying
The Science Behind the Spirit The Surrogate Mother Theory In-Sight Publishing Interview
The Grand Staircase Wikipedia "Is" versus "Ought" Dichotomy "Bare Metal" Computers:
Fragmented Cometary Impacts KJV Good Enough for Paul OS-Level Assy.Lang. for ix86 PC
Why More Meteor Hits In 2009 Choose to Lissten (Preterism) Arduino Controllers
Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia Faith vs. Works (salvation) Learn How Computers Work
Is Godel's Theorem an Error? The Science Speaks Newsletter STM32F103 assembly code
The First Living Cell Books Other Stuff:
Formation of the Solar System A New Look at an Old Earth Red-Light Therapy
Torched Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud? (New Look Online edition soon) Kid's Communication Connection
Another? - Another? - Another? Who Designed God? Down Syndrome Treatment?
Another: NGC 5189, (video) Hell Bent ("fiction") Math Facts Tutor
Another (yellow ring) etc Bible & Science Timeline


Peter W. Stoner Science Speaks

Science Speaks
by Peter W. Stoner

(my grandfather), link to ancestry
Video: The Professor and the Prophets
His Autobiography
Wikipedia Article
Online edition of Science Speaks

A Challenge for Apologists:

At this point in time, my Grandfather's book, Science Speaks is more likely to be weighed for its historical significance than its usefulness as an evangelical tool. "Silver dollars" are now collector's items rather than what a person might carry in their pockets, and formal hermeneutics have become increasingly complex, during the century since these arguments were constructed. In particular, the internet, by its magnitude alone, has made it difficult to do a thorough job of addressing "all" objections which a critical person might raise. e.g.: See this page Here.

As the number of motivated and creative critics increases, it becomes the responsibility of the apologist to evaluate the number of possible ways each prophetic statement might (in theory) be interpreted. For example, on the the Wikipedia page (linked above), the complexity of nailing down the exact size and location of the ancient (and completely removed) original city of Tyre becomes a difficult issue (particularly on an increasingly built-up Mediterranean waterfront).

As the complexity of interpreting the passage increases the number of ways it might have been fulfilled, the numerator of each probability term increases with it. This numerator was usually presumed to be "1" in my Grandfather's book, but this is no longer a satisfactory assumption. The job of answering every critic with a computer is, at best, a full-time job. As the numerators increase, their product also increases greatly.

Those of us who attempt to use century-old arguments to defend the Gospel must understand that we have a hundred years' worth of raised objections which must now be addressed.


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