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Author Topic:   Bible Codes Prove Evolution!!!
crashfrog
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Message 2 of 23 (36031)
04-01-2003 4:57 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by johndcal
04-01-2003 4:39 PM


Funny joke, but there's an element of truth.
Theoretically, in any non-deterministic string of characters of sufficient length, you should be able to find any finite string of characters you search for. (Similarly, if you chose any string of numbers, you can find that string in the decimal expansions of irrational numbers like pi, if you keep looking.)
So the fact that you can get "bible codes", etc is not really amazing or significant. It would me much more significant if you couldn't find those things.

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crashfrog
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Message 4 of 23 (37046)
04-15-2003 3:53 AM
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04-14-2003 7:18 AM


I should point out that I don't know any Hebrew.
Now if you have some more time, figure out probablity of this happening by randomness. Keep in mind that complete Torah has 305,408 characters in it. What is the probabily of the same sequence happening at BEGINING of each book with the SAME sequence after EACH letter? There are a lot of very smart people out here, I'm sure you can come up with the answer.
Firstly, the characters in the Torah are not statistically random (I assume), no more than they would be in a comparable english book. So we don't even have to consider all combinations of letters. Secondly, if the books are thematically related, perhaps it makes sense that they might begin in ways that are similar?
In fact, I understand that the idea that truth could be found in mathematical arrangements of letters (numerology) is a pretty old idea. Might the authors of the Torah have concealed this pattern there for you to find?
In a book written by people I just don't see it as a very big deal. My question to you is, why would you expect it to happen at random?

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