I would put ID and bible codes in the same boat ie: wishful thinking with some unwillingness to own up to reality
it depends on how you define equality between moby dick and the bible
as books i would say they are equal, but as books with authority given by millions of people, no the bible has more weight than moby dick
what i mean is people who look at the bible as having some outside meaning than a book, wouldn't consider moby dick to be equal
some people also like to make the religous text have deeper meaning than it really does