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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)
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:
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
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?
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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