BBC - Horizon - The Bible Code
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Stumble ThisThe Bible Code - programme summary
Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has written two books claiming ... all ยป that he can see into the future using a 3000 year old code, hidden in the Bible.
What he can see is truly horrific; according to Drosnin, the world could end in an atomic holocaust - in 2006.
It sounds preposterous yet Drosnin claims to have serious scientific backing. Behind his findings lies the work of one of the world's most brilliant theoretical mathematicians, an Israeli professor called Eliyahu Rips.
In 1994, using exactly the same ancient code, Michael Drosnin accurately predicted the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin - twelve months before it occurred.
Drosnin's books on the Bible Code have been translated into most of the world's major languages and are read by millions of people. If he's right, he's stumbled on one of the most important discoveries ever made.
Horizon investigates the science behind the Bible Code.
Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has written two books claiming ... all ยป that he can see into the future using a 3000 year old code, hidden in the Bible.
What he can see is truly horrific; according to Drosnin, the world could end in an atomic holocaust - in 2006.
It sounds preposterous yet Drosnin claims to have serious scientific backing. Behind his findings lies the work of one of the world's most brilliant theoretical mathematicians, an Israeli professor called Eliyahu Rips.
In 1994, using exactly the same ancient code, Michael Drosnin accurately predicted the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin - twelve months before it occurred.
Drosnin's books on the Bible Code have been translated into most of the world's major languages and are read by millions of people. If he's right, he's stumbled on one of the most important discoveries ever made.
Horizon investigates the science behind the Bible Code.
reminds me of that great movie by Darren Aronofsky PI
I've talked to people who for years before it happened said the US would feel the ramifications of their actions in the middle east, but I'm not sure we should start calling them prophets even if they started to claim they managed to decipher their predictions in the bible.
The Isaac Newton thing was funny I thought. He devoted more than half a entire century to the bible, eh? They make is sound like he did nothing else, which of course is complete boulderdash.
Also, the skipcode thing made laugh out loud. Conspiracy theorize much? Seriously, we've covered this in the sift before with the video that showed that the versions of the bible we have today is far different from the original ones. I mean look at the printed torah page of their Chanukah code. Good job on finding two words by doing two different skipcode keys, one of the words being backwards. This might just be me being sceptical, but it does reek a bit of conspiracy theory, wouldn't you say? Especially when they show us the Saddam thing. Taking a couple of letters here and there and then putting them together to make "fire on the third of shevat" is creating a meaning that isn't there in my mind. To close this part of my arguments, I'll quote the holy man from this clip, talking about his so called discovery "When you analyze in the proper way..." Analyze in the proper way indeed, and add proper meaning to the proper analyzation.
Finally, what would the reason be for writing a coded message in the bible? Did they do it for laughs or perhaps to make sure it couldn't be rewritten differently? It has been changed, however, so scouring it for hidden messages is a waste of time unless you've got the originals, or the version of it when the alleged code was entered in.
"President Kennedy appeared once" Hehe, what are the odds of the word Kennedy appearing once when taking loosely connected letters randomly from a huge chunk of text?
Sadly, the people "working" on this are probably too far gone in this to possibly see the absurdity of it. I just hope this thing will die out in the coming decades, with the people currently pushing it onwards. We don't need more this sort of madeup coincidence.
Upvote for the fun of rampant conspiracy theories and their use of music. Also the end results. But perhaps the experts and sceptics didn't "properly analyze" the data
Their efforts could well be better spent, in my opinion.
It's a "coded" book all right. That becomes quickly apparent to anyone who has tried to make sense of it.
-- lostonearth
1) Be extremely vague.
2) Stick with common themes that could apply to any culture or time period.
3) Credit God with your predictions.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)
Assassinations predicted by "Moby Dick":
-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
-President Rene Moawad
-Soviet exile Leon Trotsky
-The Reverend Martin Luther King
-Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
-The assassin Sirhan Sirhan
-John F. Kennedy
-Abraham Lincoln
-Yitzhak Rabin
And Special Guest star:
Princess Diana
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
http://www.randi.org/jr/091704a.html (2nd from the top)
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbiblecode.html
And a little quote from BRM's link:
"It has come to my attention that some people have taken this page as claiming that Moby Dick really predicted the assassinations of famous people. Please be assured that none of these patterns happened by other than pure random chance.
No laws of probability are violated here, or even stretched a little. That is also true of Drosnin's book, which is the whole point of this page. Once you learn Drosnin's rules (none) and the method (a bit of messy programming) you can find things like this anywhere. The reason it looks amazing is that the number of possible things to look for, and the number of places to look, is much greater than you imagine."