Mathematical claims of 'Bible Codes'...is there any truth in the maths?

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I spent many hours talking with Ed years ago. I never changed his mind and he never changed mine. -- Randy IngermansonPublisher, Advanced Fiction Writing E-zinehttp://www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com/blog
I was a bit disappointed he didn't go into detail.

I think what one needs to bear in mind is that there an awful lot of gullible people out there, people who WANT to believe things like this, that there is an overall design/a guiding intelligence to our universe and as such people like Drosnin & Sherman stand to make a huge amount of money out of books on the subject. Indeed I suspect many of these people, these writers probably don't believe the crap they write and are well aware they are leading others astray ... if I am right, that they are not only being disingenuous but plain lying, I wonder how they can live with what they do? Maybe they drink Horlicks?

Kyu

Your suspicions may well be true although from what I've read of the people involved (on both sides) their intentions are sincere if not wrong. It is claimed that Sherman started out with the intention of disproving the codes. Anyway, I'll continue checking these claims. They'll maybe come to nothing again.

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Are you saying that Ed's Bible codes are extraordinary compared to those found in other texts?

Well, that is what he is seeming to claim. If you check out the link I provided it does go into it in more detail.

I've found two critics and I've emailed them as the 'debunking' stuff I'm finding seems to be dated back to the Drosnin codes and there doesn't seem to be any up to date critiques regarding Ed Sherman's claims.

If Ed's claims aren't updated, why would the critique need to be ?

The critiques I seem to be finding are based on the initial Drosnin, Rips codes that were seemingly disproved back in the late 90s. I'll let you know if I find any reviews of Sherman's codes.

Wait, I thought Ingerman is a critic of Bible codes. Is he in fact a proponent?

No, he is a critic. He has spoken to Sherman and knows about Sherman's codes but he didn't go into detail in his reply to me, to say why he thought Sherman was wrong, just like Drosnin.

DD, (is it ok to shorten your name?) Hope you can see my comments in bold.