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Bible Codes

Some argue that there exist hidden "codes" in the Bible and that these codes predict future events - impossible, unless the Bible had a supernatural origin. Is this argument supported by facts?
Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!
Michael Drosnin made the challenge: "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." Well, it has been met.
The Bible Code: A Book Review
PDF format review from the American Mathematical Society.
Demise of Drosnin
"Yes, folks, using the method that Drosnin himself uses, and the text that he himself chose as a challenge to his critics, we find that Drosnin himself will be murdered in a grotesque manner."
ELS in Genesis Refuted
An extensive refutation of the famous rabbis experiment, and of many other alleged experiments, was published by the same journal that published the original Bible Code paper.
ELS in "War and Peace"
The first serious attack on the Bible Codes, finding that a small change in the choice of appellations for the famous rabbis can lead to War and Peace performing just as well as Genesis.
Hidden Messages and The Bible Code
"The source of the mysterious "Bible code" has been revealed -- it's homo sapiens. "
Man who cracked the "Bible Code"
"When Australian mathematics professor Dr. Brendan McKay's... findings were cited as the most striking challenge to ... The Bible Code, we asked him to submit an article and to include examples of other possible "code words" in the Bible, such as (we thought facetiously) Bill Gates. Dr. McKay's reply included several surprises."
Michael Drosnin & Shoemaker-Levy 9
"The fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet Jupiter over several days centered at July 19-20, 1994. Michael Drosnin's book, The Bible Code, claims that he predicted the exact date of the collision "two months before the collision". In interviews with the media Drosnin has been known to expand this period to a whole year. "
Minimal Skip
Complicated rebuttal of a critic of Michael Drosnin's Bible Codes.
Moby Dick vs. Genesis
"Due to the fierce competition between Genesis and Moby Dick for the title of supreme source of codes, we thought we would ask each of these sources about the other. "
Princess Diana in Moby Dick
Find out how Princess Diana's death was actually predicted in Moby Dick!
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