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The Bible Code by Micheal Drosnin The Bible Code is an interesting read if you're an aetheist because it almost proves the existence of, if not God, someone who was trying to warn us. Basically, the book is an extension of the article that Witzum, Rips, and Rosenberg submitted to a statistical journal in 1994. This article analyzed the presence of equidistant letter sequences in the Book of Genesis to determine if they occured at random, or were created deliberately. Simplified, the researchers coded Genesis into Hebrew as one long word. Then, they searched for names, like Ytzak Rabin, and determed the probability of that coding occuring throughout the text. To promote fairness, they also examined their list of names in other Hebrew texts and War and Peace using a similar proceedure. Usually, when they would find a name, they would also find hidden text relating to that person, historic examples being Kennedy and Oswald. The other texts, however, would not reproduce these intersections of information. It was also mathmatically determined that they could not be occuring randomly, so someone had to create the Bible as a code. To date, no other investigations have been able to refute their proof, and The Bible Code carries this experiment into other texts beyond Genesis. In addition to examining historical examples like Kennedy, Drosnin also tackles current events and the future. In one scary example, he warns Rabin that he will be killed along with the day and location of the murder. Rabin discounts this warning, and is killed according to the code. The code also correctly predicts an astrological event and the start of the Gulf War by Hussian. It isn't perfect, however, and Drosnin learns that the code covers both the actual possibility and several others. So, he decides, the warnings of the end of days by atomic war could be prevented if we could learn from the code what to avoid. So, he iterates the problems to come with Japan and bioterrorism, California/Asia's giant earthquake (which other fault researchers agree on), and the start of WW3 in the Middle East. Unfortunately, The Bible Code is pre-9/11, so it doesn't include some of the newer issues we've faced, but I feel that an updated version might find even more information. Sadly, the version I had focused on the world ending in 1996 (one of four years that is coded for the End of Days), and then discovered a "delayed" coded right above it. It seems we averted that one. Because the math is so faultless, it's hard not to believe the Bible Code. Someone somewhere must have encoded these texts purposely. That's why Hebrew texts are copied exactly and cannot be used if even one character is different from the original. That is also why every religion has similar stories of God slaying the dragon/dinosaurs. Somehow, someone must have come down and given us an encoded text so we could help ourselves when the time came. We thought it was God, but really, if God could prevent it, why would we need to work? No, the Bible Code shows that someone wanted to help us, but couldn't except to give us clues how to help ourselves. Pretty damn creepy and a good scientific read. Daphne |