Bible Code

[jcmcb]

Hey guys -

The Code Book (by Singh) is a great book on cryptography, and also has a great appendix which basically debunks the whole bible code nonsense. The code works in non-religious books, which the author of the bible code specifically said it would not. Makes you think....

Other articles that debunk the so called bible code:

http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html

http://www.csicop.org/si/9803/bible-code.html

These are articles from a Skeptic Society and were published the monthly magazine.

[Syini666]

Actually the whole bible code theory was replicated, and confirmed by mathematicians at Harvard, Yale and Hebrew University. It was also independently confirmed by a cryptologist at the Department of Defense, so I think that would give it just a bit of credit.

[thesecretfire]

Originally posted here by Syini666
Actually the whole bible code theory was replicated, and confirmed by mathematicians at Harvard, Yale and Hebrew University. It was also independently confirmed by a cryptologist at the Department of Defense, so I think that would give it just a bit of credit.

First of all, just become someone works for the DOD or yale doesn't give them credit. Who are these people who have confirmed it. Do others agree with their proofs? Sure, you can make words with it, but as I said before, any meaning is simply coming from the interpretation of the decoder, not the original text itself. If you took a long enough string of random letters, you would eventually find the collected works of William Shakespeare somewhere in the string. Do a few simple operations on the string, and you could easily find it somewhere.