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The "Bible Code"
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 23, 2005, 09:04:16 pm ---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.
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yes, i actually thought of that as soon as a left the internet cafe. unless this bible code is based on only one particular bible in one particular language. why would god do something like that? or allow it to be done?
this is one of those things where rational atheists AND christians can agree (",)
Dartful Dodger:
I liked L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth".
I enjoyed the movie too, but that's because I read the book 10 years earlier, and the movie reminded me of pieces in the book.
The Hitchhiker's guide should be a great movie too, although Martin Freeman didn't have a religious following so it probably doesn't belong in this thread.
jbox:
First of all, I have to say that Dan Brown's books are cookie-cutter stuff. Once you have read one of the books simply abstract all of the names in the book and you can use the underlying template to 99.9% guess the outcome of each of the other books. The only reason I read them is because my S.O. likes them, so it gives us something to talk about. The only reason they are so popular is that people have gotten *used* to being lied to, so any book that can present a reasonable sketch of a lie and a reason to lie can eventually be picked up and turned into an urban legend... :laugh:
Secondly, word analysis is just statistical nonsense. I could just as easily develop some algorithm involving pi, e and i which takes the stars in the northern hemisphere and produces God's final message to humanity (you know, the one about the inconvienience) but it wouldn't be proof there is a God. :-\
Dartful - I haven't read the book for B.E. Is it similar at all to the tripod's trilogy where it takes the underground several years to develop their plan, which they then build mostly themselves? Most movie adaptations lose me the moment a country bumpkin learns how to fly the moment they get in the cockpit... ::)
lokki:
Let me start this by saying that I think scientology is pure BS.
But oddly enough two of my favorite books are by Mr Hubbard.
Battlefield Earth and Fear
BE is really good, and Fear really surprised me the first time I read it (20 years ago)
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: jbox on March 28, 2005, 10:28:07 pm ---Dartful - I haven't read the book for B.E. Is it similar at all to the tripod's trilogy where it takes the underground several years to develop their plan, which they then build mostly themselves? Most movie adaptations lose me the moment a country bumpkin learns how to fly the moment they get in the cockpit...
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