The Bible Code

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Too bad nobody with any serious background in science or religion believes the Bible Code. It's been discredited for years.

The author of the Bible Code is essentially creating his own prophecies. With any work of reasonable length, if you apply enough patterns and algorithms into it (and use a little creative interpretation), you can arrange the letters to say anything.

The author once responded to the criticism by saying, "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them."

Well, guess what? A group of mathematicians did just that. They were able find stuff about the assassinations of Indira Gandhi, both Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yitzhak Rabin among others.

You can find all that stuff in the following link.

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

I don't think anybody is going to try to argue that Moby Dick was a prophetic text. But even if you do, it doesn't matter. You could do this with just about any work. Hell, you could probably find some stuff in my fan fiction. If you're willing to stretch a bit, you will find something. But then you're just generating your own prophecies.

Sorry, folks. The Bible Code is a hoax. You would probably be better off just praying for your answers.

Where the hell do you find this stuff? You Swarthmorians are a weird people. I think lack of football has perverted your brains. (Sorry, but its been a long time since I did that )

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

Where the hell do you find this stuff? You Swarthmorians are a weird people. I think lack of football has perverted your brains. (Sorry, but its been a long time since I did that )

Oh yeah? Well you...

You write like a girl!

*runs away from The Strangler and jumps into a trash can*

Actually, I just remembered reading somewhere that somebody had applied the Bible Code to Moby Dick and then did a Google search for it. Yeah, it's one of those things we Swarthmore people do. Read.

[jeepnut]

Haven't seen the trash can in a while. Good to see it's still doing ok.