[bluefish]

Quix, you may be able to play with statistics and show me all kinds of things with regards to your "codes." However, statistics used to analyze one thing (words, letters, nubers in The Bible) cannot be offered as proof of something entirely independent of the thing to which those statistics were applied (current events).

The statistical proof, probabilities, improbabilities, etc. that you cite only refer to the codes themselves, but have no bearing on reality and offer no analysis of anything other than the words to which those statistics are applied.

There may be all kinds of statistical quirks with your Bible Codes, but so what? I recall reading that vegetarians are many times more statistically likely to die in a plane crash (given recent events, I would have preferred to cite a different one, but this is the most powerful). Does this statistical revelation tell us anything about vegetarianism and airplane travel? No, it only tells us how the dice ended up after being rolled. You can scream about the significance of the statistical probabilities all you want - they still have no bearing on reality and only tell you whether the liklihood was high or low for something to occur. They do not tell you that it will or won't occur. They especially won't tell you if something entirely independent of what the statistics analyzed will or won't occur.

The Bible Code folks have not yet shown me how all their statistics mean anything other than they have come up with a bunch of interesting statistics (interesting to a statistician at least).

Again, with regards to your statistical probabilities of a word or combination of letters existing I ask: So What? You have failed to prove that the stats themselves have any meaning.

The Bible has meaning for us because it conveys God's Word, offers a historical representation of what has occurred, etc. Your codes however do nothing of the sort. They only statistically analyze the combination of words, letters, numbers, etc. AFTER the meaning has been stripped from them.

[Quix]

Oh, I think the implication that God exists outside of time and from that outside-of-time perspective influenced the writing of the Biblical text in such a way as to produce the codes. . . I think that's a

VERY INTERESTING

Impact on the dimensions we commonly call reality.

That such impacts continue to have association with daily news items of international import is all the more interesting. . . to me. . . clearly some sensibilities are so jangled by such prospects they should steer quite clear--or only consider the truths and implications under heavy MD sedation.