Re: "Ezekial" did see a flying saucer.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Owen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> 3) NUMEROLOGY. There is a preponderance of things in the Bible, such
> as lists, that contain multiples of 7. Seven words, seven vowels,
> seven items, etc. A man named Ivan Panin did a lifetime study of this
> and, when he died, 15,000 pages of these lists were found in his
> stuff. Just in the first verse, Gen 1:1, about 50 seven things (words,
> vowels, etc.) were found. Mathematically, these things shouldn't
> happen.

The patterns that Ivan Panin found in the Bible can be found in any
text. Further, in some of his work, Panin actually manipulated the
actual Greek text of the Bible to enhance his patterns [1].

> 4) BIBLE CODES.   It's a system of taking each 5th letter, or 7th
> letter, or 13th, or whatever, and seeing what words are spelled out.
> Free software is available, somewhere in the internet, which enables
> one to do his/her own searches. Many word and phrases concerning
> historical events have been found. It has been rumored that there are
> Bible Code type things in the Islamic "bible", but I haven't seen any
> results.

The same phenomenon has been found in "Moby Dick" [2][3], the Hebrew
translation of "War and Peace", and the text of Michael Drosnin's
"Bible Code II" [4].

> Could 40 men, over 1500 years, incorporate all of these math systems
> into about 1500 pages of inerrant, low vocabulary text, and still
> maintain it's beauty and integrity? I think not!

Perhaps not, but it is certainly true that intelligent motivated
people can be fooled into finding patterns where no patterns exist.

[1] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/panin.html
[2] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html
[3] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/wtc.html
[3] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/drosninII.html