Has anyone read "The Bible Code" by Michael Drosnin? I rented it recently from my local library, and have found it very fascinating so far. For those who haven't read it, its basically code taken from the original hebrew text, and has been encoded by an Israeli mathmetician, which appears to reveal the details of main events that took place thousands of years after the bible was written... anyways, I am a little bit skeptical, but its pretty interesting nonetheless...

 

I think you are talking about the torah code aka bible code. My science teacher was very interested in this. In fact he got so into it that he asked to leave for a month to go on an "expedition" to look for the arc in the cuvnet (however you spell it). Anyways The school wouldn't allow him to leave that long like (two months) so he quit to go on his expedition, and i haven't heard anything about him or the arc and the past two years.

 

The bible code is very interesting. I have the book, and I'm a firm believer that the code is real. However, Drosnin (the author) kind of took it too far. If you do a search on the bible code, you can find quotes from the mathematicians who discoverd the code discrediting the author. Drosnin tried to use the code to predict the future. Dr Eliyahu Rips, who discovered the code, says that the code cannot be used reliably to predict the future. To me personally, Rips is more credible than Drosnin, since he discovered it. Interesting stuff, nonetheless.

 

My sister bought the second book from Costco and I ended up stealing it from her just to read it. It has some crazy stuff in it, but I honestly don't know if I should seriously believe Drosnin. Just watch out for the future people!

 

To get another viewpoint, check out: http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html

David

 

uh, 2 years!? he'll never find it. j/k

 

It's numerology, more or less. What's most surprising to me is that Christians would buy into this, given that it borders on bible idolotry.

I read the cover of the book, and quite honestly, started laughing out loud at the pretext. Without researching it or having read the link that Fear Itself provided (which should be required reading for anyone lurking on this thread), I would have bet that taking any large text and performing the same calculations would have revealed similar "predictions." However, I'm a bit of an oddball.

Tim

 

I agree with Timmay! I would think it would be possible with any large piece of text. As it's a bit of randomized letters. Sooner or later you'll get something that creates a word but of course you have your other odd balls that believe everything is a message!

bryan

 

I think they mentioned this actually, and tried to conduct the same experiment with "War and Peace", but said that the odds of finding that many keywords on the same PAGE is like millions and millions to one... but who really knows for sure ...

 

It proves that everyone and anyone who can make money will do so, praying on religion is by far the easiest.