On 22/05/2006, at 3:06 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
oh, there are plenty of those. The recent "Bible Code" revival has
lead to quite a few smart wags using the same "method" to show all
sorts of... bollocks.
True, but he remains a favorite because I read his "proof" ages
ago, when I
was 15 or 16 (>35 years ago).
Was a classic. Was Von Daniken as Crank of the Week when I was a sprog.
Nothing to do with the veracity of the source material - the same
algorithms work equally well on any body of english text that is
sufficiently long...
That's true.One thing that's interesting is that the Bible does have
numerical codes that mean something. For example, the Numbers of
the Beast
found in ancient copies of Revelations (666 is the most common, but
there
are some very old texts that have the Number of the Beast as 616)
refers to
Nero in both variations of the number (666 and 616).
Yup. Interesting. Meaningful, less certain. But interesting for sure.
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