Jon Gabriel wrote: > There were infomercials for the Bible Code running on US tv for a while that > were put out by (I think) Baptists. The producers had used the Bible Code > program to find all sorts of phrases and names and were using them to > explain and predict current events (and by extension justify their political > agendas.) Quite a convincing presentation, especially if you were already > inclined to believe in the accuracy of what they were showing and were also > willing to accept that the old and new testaments are an acrosstic. > > If the same program were applied to say, War and Peace, you'd probably find > tons of mysterious hidden words throughout the text. Just because we > perceive a pattern or meaning doesn't mean it's been placed there > deliberately or is anything more than coincidence or wishful thinking. > > http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html
Thank you for the link. Very good article. (Anyone interested in the Bible Code, check it out!) I consider the Bible Code to be in the same class as numerology, which I rank at *best* one step above astrology. (And I've seen someone more whacked out on numerology than I've ever seen anyone whacked out on astrology, but I know I haven't seen the worst cases of astrology out there.) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l