13 August 2008

The Bible Code...and why I hate most people.

So, the WoW beta servers are down, and Mariana is out picking up her brother from school. I'm home, eating dinner and watching TV peacefully. On the History channel, there was a show about the Bible Code. I'll sum it up for you: Using statistics, you can search the letters of the Torah and make a matrix. In this matrix, there will be coded words that are clumped together that all have to do with the same thing. These things can be 9/11, world war 2, the SARS scare, Shuttle Columbia blowing up in re-entry, etc.

Okay, that's pretty cool. Now, some people believe that these codes were put there by a supernatural force. They state that the odds are too incredibly small to be by chance. Meh. A lot of things happen by chance. But okay, I'll take the bait. Tell me about this supernatural inspired bible code...

Well, Since it can't be chance, it must be God. So other scientists said "It's still statistics, look, we'll take a piece of work of similar length and run it through tests and see if we can get similar predictions." And you know what? They did...and they got similar predictions. They used Moby Dick. And do you know what Moby Dick predicted? Princess Diana's death, JFK's assassination "in cars", etc.

Bible Code believes either write it off as rubbish OR (the best part), Moby Dick is also divinely coded.

So long story short...if you really want to, you can find a code about death in anything using these equidistant spacing matrices. I suggest you try and find a program and do it!

~Zumacrume

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