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Codes in Bible point to Qaeda's nuclear weapon hideout? | Author Michael Drosnin believes that there are secret, coded messages in the Bible that indicate that Al Qaeda has nuclear weapons in a secret hiding place. Drosnin took out a full page ad in the New York Times today that asks, "Why Won't the White House Let the President Read This Letter?" Under that is a photograph of Osama bin Laden, with a large caption that reads, "Bin Laden May Already Have Nuclear
Weapons." Drosnin, author of the best-selling "Bible Code" book series, claims
he can see things in the Bible that no one else can. He believes that the Bible
contains codes (hidden in numbers and letters) accurately predicting world events.
However, his critics have other things to say. Physicist David E. Thomas showed
that the patterns Drosnin and others found were the result of "data mining." If
you run a computer program through enough massive pieces of text (whether the
Bible or "War and Peace" or "Moby-Dick"), looking for enough patterns (every 10th
letter, every 12th letter, etc.), it will eventually spit out some words and jumbled
sentences that could be interpreted to make sense. Thomas demonstrated this by
downloading an excerpt from Drosnin's new book from his website. "It was 3,681
characters in length after stripping spaces and punctuation, or just over one
percent of the Torah's length," Live Science quoted Thomas as saying. "I ran two
quick algorithms, and even though the chapter is short, it teems with amazing
'Bible Codes'. For example I found the words 'vain' and 'hoax' in one analysis,
and the word 'megalomania' in another. Do these codes mean anything? Of course
not! They just serve to show how easily hidden messages can be produced in any
text, not just the Torah."
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