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The "Bible Code"
SamSom:
You dont need the bible code to know whats going to happen next it says it straight up in the bible. For example soon were all going to have to carry personal identification chips inside or hand or something, You heard about babylon right well its in Iraq and its going to become one of the wealthiest cities in Iraq . and here comes another war, List goes on and on.
danny_galaga:
unless the bible was written in the 15th century you can safely assume it to be coincidence. thats when the technology came about. the first cyphers were called caesar shifts (because of the time they were first used) and they were simply shifting one alphabet over another to get your cypher. thus maybe a = t, b= u, c = v etc. pretty simple. then came the monoalphapbetic cypher, the arabs were the first to work out how to decypher those in about the 9th century as they were trying to get closer to understanding mohammed. they invented 'frequency analysis'. in about the 15th century a guy came up with a polyalphabetic cypher. the 'vigenere' cypher comprises 26 alphabets in a table. anyway, you can look up how it works. facinating. the first person to crack those was charles babbage.
besides that, why would god want to NOT tell us stuff? isnt the bible his word?
paigeoliver:
And doesn't all that theorizing forget one substantial fact? There are thousands of ancient bible manuscripts. If two manuscripts differ by a single character then they would produce a different code, and the manuscripts tend to differ by more than just a single character.
In essence, if one manuscript says "Ishmael had a clay pot" and the OTHER one says "Ishmael had a red clay pot" then the entire code will be thrown off by the extra character.
Not sure if they are using the Gospels, but there is so much variation in those manuscripts that looking for codes would be absolutely silly. They have thousands that agree with each other 95+ percent of the time, but 5 percent is a huge difference if you are looking for a code. Change 5 percent of the characters in a word find puzzle and see if it still works.
DrewKaree:
That program has been around for quite some time. I saw it on either the History channel or Discovery channel a few years ago. I haven't read the DaVinci Code - thought it was what the show was based upon or versa veetavitavegamineral.
It appears to be a "what result do you want, and lets try to find it" type of exercise. That also would explain all the differences used to get the same result you spoke of.
GGKoul:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 23, 2005, 10:06:12 pm ---That program has been around for quite some time. I saw it on either the History channel or Discovery channel a few years ago. I haven't read the DaVinci Code - thought it was what the show was based upon or versa veetavitavegamineral.
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Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" is a much better book then the DaVinci Code.