The Divine signature in the Torah

The Bible Codes boil down to a fancy Sharpshooter Fallacy where you paint the bull's eye around the bullet hole. No one predicted beforehand that specific phrases would be found in the Torah. Instead, they manipulate the Torah until they get something, and then claim after the fact that the Torah meant to say that all along.What would have been much more impressive is if the codes were predicted before any manipulation was done, but that isn't the case.

The argument we disagree with is that it required a divine authority to produce the codes. Was this predicted ahead of time? If not, you are just painting the bull's eye around the bullet hole.

The odds of winning the Powerball lottery is 1 in 150 million, yet people win it all of the time. The flaw is that it commits the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. These combinations of letters were not predicted before hand.

Occurences with improbable odds occur every second of our day, and they are the product of very mundane processes, not divine ones. Isn't it weird that the world's best statisticians say that their probabilities are invalid?

Sure. Let's use elephants in clouds as our example. Here is one. Now, the statistical probability that water vapor, air pressure, sunlight, etc. would all line up at the exactly the right time and exactly the right place to produce exactly that elephant is staggeringly improbable. We are talking 1 in trillions.So, was that elephant the product of random, natural processes or was it the product of the divine?Edited by Taq, : No reason given.