In Search of Mathematical Miracles Over the years, many claims have been made of miraculous patterns occurring beneath the text of sacred texts. Included are the Hebrew scriptures, the Greek text of the New Testament, the Arabic text of the Qur'an, and even the Book of Mormon. This page contains a collection of resources on the subject. Our position is sceptical, and that is reflected in our ...

'Hidden messages' can be found anywhere, provided the seeker is willing and able to harvest the immense field of possibilities. But do they mean anything

Over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature ...

Mathematicians' Statement on the Bible Codes We are making this statement concerning what have been called Bible codes or Torah codes . We recognize that many sincere people take this phenomenon seriously, which compels us to speak out on the basis of what our mathematical training tells us about the evidence claimed for this alleged phenomenon. There is a common belief in the general ...

Barry Simon on Torah Codes Barry Simon is the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech and Woody's co-author in the Mother of All... series. As a trained mathematician and Orthodox Jew he became interested in the controversy surrounding codes in the Torah. He decided to put up this site to deal with various aspects of the issues. Woody and WOPR team (thanks guys!) offered ...

THE BIBLE CODES : A TEXTUAL PERSPECTIVE Jeffrey H. Tigay University of Pennsylvania October 13, 1999 In the 11th or 12th century, a Jewish woman in Byzantium named Maliha wrote to her brothers in Egypt that she wanted to come visit them, but that when she looked into a Torah scroll she found a bad omen forecasting failure if she were to make the journey.1 Something in the passage that caught her ...

AN OLD CARD TRICK AND NEW BIBLICAL HOAX excerpted from Once Upon a Number - The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories (p. 64, Basic Books, Nov. 1998) by John Allen Paulos Some coincidences are significant but not for the ostensible reasons given. There is, for example, a magic trick of recent vintage that nicely illustrates a way in which two people can cognitively couple and generate an ...

Torah Codes ( Bible Codes ) A Non-Expert's Observations Only a fool believes everything he's told. A prudent man knows the need for proof. --Proverbs Note: I wrote this letter to a friend who asked me to review the Witztum article as it was originally published. The controversy over the Torah Codes has now erupted on the 'web, and I felt this worth sharing, since I made a couple of observations ...

Bible Study - Bible Codes (ELS) made simple - Part 1 ...

AN IMPARTIAL OPINION ON THE TORAH CODES Bruce David Wilner June 1997 (last updated October 1999) Eliyahu Rips Doron Witztum Yoav Rosenberg Michael Drosnin Bible code Torah code I recently read Michael Drosnin's new book, The Bible Code (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997). Being entranced by the concept but simultaneously disappointed at the author's casual style and handy ...