Answerer

Hi guys, just how many of you believe in the fact that there is a scientifical or mathematical approach to the 'code'(predictions) in the bible? I know there is a dozen of books covering on this topic, so I'm just curious of how everyone of you view this, hmmm, crap?

Principia

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Shadowy Man

Go to this page:

<a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/torah.html" target="_blank">http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/torah.html</a>

Godless Dave

There is no code in the bible.

SanDiegoAtheist

As crap?

Seriously though - given a long enough text, and accepting ANY 'pattern' that comes out that corresponds to known reality, you can find these types of 'codes' anywhere.

Now, if you went in with a LIST of very specific predictions, and required that ALL of that list be contained exactly within the text tested against, and had a sufficient number of these specific predictions, and that they needed to fit a specific letter-gap pattern, and all the preceding proved to be true, then THAT would lead to a strong conclusion that there was in fact a 'code' contained in that text.

But if you just look for any 'prediction' that corresponds to reality, you've just allowed yourself a near infinite amount of potential 'hits'. If you further allow just about any letter-gap pattern to be considered to be a 'match', you've just allowed yourself a near infinite amount of potential search spaces. Given these two conditions, it would be amazing if a text of anything more than a few pages didn't contain some of these 'predictions'.

Essentially, the "Bible Code" is portraying this search as if it were looking for a needle in a haystack, while not telling you that the haystack is MADE of needles.

Cheers,

The San Diego Atheist

Bookman

Brilliant! Original?

SanDiegoAtheist

Yah, that's all mine suppose I should (tm) it lol - glad ya liked it.

San Diego Atheist

Doubting Didymus

Where is that site that predicted the assasination of JFK using moby dick?

Nickle

On the same site as linked above. <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html" target="_blank">Here</a>.

beausoleil

"It has come to my attention that some people have taken this page as claiming that Moby Dick really predicted the assassinations of famous people... "

LOL LOL LOL