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Hundreds of billion of Christians who have readthe Biblemay be chafe their top dog , wondering how they missed the " clear " reference to atomic weapon system and Al Qaeda among the religious doctrine and parables . The answer is that Drosnin , generator of the best - selling"Bible Code"book series , take he can see things in the Bible that no one else can .
Drosnin believes that the Bible bear codes ( hide in numbers racket and missive ) accurately predicting world events .
Physicist David E. Thomas downloaded an except of Drosnin’s new book and ran another algorithm on the characters after stripping out spaces and punctuation, coming up with the word “megalomania."
Drosnin ’s critic have show that the meanings he found were simply the termination of selectively choose data sets from a vast ocean of random letters within the Bible textbook . For example , physicist David E. Thomas show that the patterns Drosnin and others come up were the upshot of " data mining . " If you run a estimator program through enough monolithic pieces of textual matter ( whether the Bible or " War and Peace " or " Moby - Dick " ) , looking for enough patterns ( every 10th letter of the alphabet , every twelfth varsity letter , etc . ) , it will eventually skewer out some words and jumbled sentences that could be interpreted to make horse sense . It ’s the sort of matter that the veritable elbow room full of scalawag with typewriter would be able to generate , give enough time .
Thomas demonstrated this for LiveScience by download an excerpt from Drosnin ’s new book from his web site . " It was 3,681 part in length after stripping spaces and punctuation , or just over one per centum of the Torah ’s length , " Thomas explained . " I hunt two quick algorithms , and even though the chapter is short , it teems with amazing ' Bible Codes ' . For example I find the words ' vain ' and ' hoax ' in one psychoanalysis , and the parole ' megalomania ' in another . Do these codes mean anything ? Of course not ! They just do to show how easy shroud messages can be produced in any text , not justthe Torah . "
Drosnin does not explain why God would inconvenience oneself to hide messages inBiblical textthat can only be reveal ( by him ) through complex computer algorithmic program purge zillion of letters . If the deity feel the message was of import , presumably it could have been presented clearly and plainly .
The most probable solvent to Drosnin ’s question is that President Obama is not interested in react to claims base onnumerology , scripture , or fortunetelling — nor in helping Drosnin promote his new book .
Benjamin Radford is managing editor program of Skeptical Inquirer science mag and generator of Scientific Paranormal Investigation : How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries . His entanglement site is www.RadfordBooks.com .
