[Gathnet] update from Israel

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, judy white wrote:

> I recently saw a program about codes which are hidden
> in the Hebrew letters in the text of the bible.  I
> thought is was fascinating!  Any thoughts about it out
> there?

I can't remember if I answered this, things are so hectic.
The Bible Codes are a scam, or less cynically, a common
statistical reasoning fallacy known as "cherry picking".
It is like shooting arrows at a barn, and then painting a target
around the arrow to show a perfect shot.

ELS codes like the bible codes can be found in any large piece
of literature.  For instance, here are fascinating predictions
from Moby Dick:  

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html 

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