Paper in a peer-reviewed journal and the opinions of the mathematical communityĪbout their work. If you scroll to the section called "Michaelĭrosnin's book," you will find numerous links.Ī reader of Michael Drosnin's book would get a rather misleading impressionĬoncerning the significance of the publication of the Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg To see the results of various control experiments, One can find some of their statements at the following website. Even the proponents of the Witztum-Rips-RosenbergĮxperiment have dismissed and strongly criticized Drosnin's claims. That one might draw from such control experiments is simply that what Drosninĭoes has no validity. "predictions" or "messages" in War and Peace, in Mobyĭick, and even in Drosnin's book itself.
Almost immediatelyĪfter the publication of this book, various individuals did "ControlĮxperiments." Imitating Drosnin, they also found many Or that might possibly take place in the future. Take the form of a prediction of some events that have already taken place Of the Bible and gives interpretations of what he finds. For most of theīook, Drosnin gives various examples of ELS's in Genesis and in other Books Torah Codes: Doron Witztum speaks out.Ī book entitled The Bible Code. Torah Codes: Scientific Statistical Discussionĥ. A Primer on the Torah Codes Controversy for LaymenĤ.
Scientific Refutation of the Bible Codesģ. We also report on many new experiments of our own, all of which failedġ. We present extensive evidence in support of that conclusion. Merely reflects on the choices made in designing their experiment and collecting Rips and Rosenberg's case is fatally defective, indeed that their result
Of the Book of Genesis encodes events which did not occur until millenniaĪfter the text was written. In this journal in 1994 made the extraordinary claim that the Hebrew text The eighth linkĬontains the comments written by Robert Kass for that issue of the journal. Gil Kalai is available on the web and is the seventh link. This 45 page article entitled Solving the BibleĬode Puzzle by Brendan McKay, Dror Bar-Natan, Maya Bar-Hillel, and A serious rebuttal to the Witztum-Rips-RosenbergĪrticle has been published in Statistical Science (the The above webpages contain many addition links. The sixth is a useful website presenting the articles by Randy Ingermanson. The fifth link presents Doron Witztum's point of view. The next link is an article by Harold Gans with an introduction by Robert Haralick, much more supportive of the idea that codes do exist in the Bible, and the fourth webpage was put together by R. The first two are detailed discussions by two prominent critics - Brendan McKay and Barry Simon. Below are various links which will give youĪn idea of the nature of the ongoing debate. Science readers as a challenging puzzle." Individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks Of Genesis could not possibly contain meaningful references to modern-day Our referees were baffled: their prior beliefs made them think the Book They obtained a very highly significant result, with p=0.000016. Test to see how rarely the pattern they found might arise by chance alone The following remark about the article by Witztum, Rips, Rosenberg in his Of Statistical Science, Professor Robert Kass, made Is slightly more than 78,000 letters long. In the Book of Genesis (with various skip lengths). It turns out that TORH is spelled out more than 56,000 times In the Book of Genesis by starting from the first T. Spelled out as T, O, R, H (in their Hebrew equivalents) Several decades ago by Rabbi Weissmandel that the word Torah occurs Letter Sequence (or, more briefly, an ELS), it was noticed These names and dates occur as sequences of letters in the text which are Of rabbis and their dates of birth or death in the Book of Genesis. This article describesĪn experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between names Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg published an article