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An email exchange about this program.
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From: "Travis"
To: "Jef Raskin"
Subject: Bible Hoax Program
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The "Bible Hoax" program doesn't discredit the bible code theory at all. I've entered numerous texts and used numerous intervals and no words were output more than 2 letters in length. Let alone large words and/or phrases. If you are going to spend time discrediting someone else's theory, try providing ample evidence to disprove it. Not a cheap javascript program and a few sly remarks. Thank you for your time.
Travis
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From: "Jef Raskin"
To: "Travis"
Subject: Re: Bible Hoax Program
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Drosnin (the author of The Bible Code) used a computer to search for words because they are so rare. If you put in enough text, eventually you will find longer words. His thesis, though, is that it applies only to the Hebrew text of the Bible. But if you finagle around for a while, you can do it with any text. As David Thomas pointed out (Skeptical Inquirer, Nov. Dec 1997), in the KJ version of the bible (Genesis 31:28) we find
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
Strip out the spaces and omit punctuation (as Drosnin did)
Andhastnotsufferedmetokissmysonsandmydaughtersthouhastnowdonefoolishlyinsodoing.
Now look at every fourth letter, you get Aaofetssaygroswellsi.
Aha! the word "say", then there's "we". "well", "swell", and even "roswell" (obviously referring to the legendary flying saucer site). Believers in this kind of thing might say that the Bible "predicts" that something important will happens at Roswell, or why would that name be encoded in the Bible? The Roswell incident is another hoax, but that's a different subject.
The "Bible Code" people say that their method works only in the original Hebrew. Of course, it's better in Hebrew, as you have mostly consonants and you can add vowels in various ways which makes it easier to create whatever words you fancy.
Now I'll take your note to me, and apply the procedure to it. Here's your note:
thebiblehoaxprogramdoesntdiscreditthebiblecodetheoryatalliveenterednumer oustextsandusednumerousintervalsandnowordswereoutputmorethanlettersinlen gthletalonelargewordsandorphrasesifyouaregoingtospendtimediscreditingsom eoneelsestheorytryprovidingampleevidencetodisproveitnotacheapjavascriptp rogramandafewslyremarksthankyouforyourtimetravis
At an interval of 3, starting with the first letter, we get "I sees tot" which either means that you will see a child, or it is phonetic which means that you will seize a child?
At an interval of 6, as the "cheap Javascript program" demonstrates, we get: day got
Maybe I'd better show the whole process. At an interval of 6, starting with t, Aza's program gives us
tlpmteeceaedotsenlowtrlsgaarosoosiciesopiledvtpcrawmhuut
which has the message "so piled" in it and the words "tee" and "low". Does this prove that you were thinking about golf when you were writing your note to me?
Starting with e we get
ehooiiidrltusadoeaoruttnhogspsaneeegnsyogecsicaigdlrnota
which amazingly has two animals in it "doe" and "hogs", and the word "rut", to say nothing of referring to the USA. Also it says "sane" from which we conclude that the secret message tells us that does and hogs in the USA keep us sane. That's the kind of non-logic the Bible Code book applied. They kept on trying intervals and starting points until they got words they could "interpret" (there were no rules to limit the possible interpretations). It was a cheat and has no validity. You can do it with any sufficiently long text -- or even short texts as demonstrated here.
Jef
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From: "Travis"
To: "Jef Raskin"
Subject: Re: Bible Hoax Program
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Well met, thanks again.