I have seen only
two to three ELS examples of phrases more than two words in length, and
am not sure that ELS found those by the same sequences. If the phrase was
found by the same unbroken sequence pattern, that would be truly impressive.
If phrases are being put together by individual words, each found by different
sequences, that would start to smell suspicious.
I do not understand the statistical
calculations that supposedly come up with the incredible non/random probabilities.
If you stop and think about it, there are 'trillions' of possibilities
as to where one could start a sequence or how big the equal lengths are,
etc. It appears that the sky is the limit, i.e. there are no limits
on how people can find results. There must always be definable parameters.(a
limit of possibilities).before
accurate probabilities can be determined.
The problem I see here is
that apparently no one.(at
least I have not heard of anyone).testing
this on non Biblical sources.(note:
testing has been done on sources other than the.Bible.in
the original; it doesn't work).or
better yet, on a randomlyrearranged
Biblical source. That is what must be done. There are just too many
ways to approach the thing in order to come up with the conclusions that
people want to come up with.
The whole Biblical text is going to have
to be jumbled and then some side by side searches done. Again, that
is the rigorous type of testing that theomatics has done.
And of course when some professor
from Harvard or MIT does the calculations.(based
upon data fed to him by the ELS researcher).and
comes up with 'jillions' to one probabilities, who would even dare question
that? The big problem with all of this is, if it is NOT true, someone is
going to eventually expose it. That would not only bring down the credibility
of the house of ELS, but also the house of theomatics. Ouch!
You are right about people
not understanding the stats. The equal problem for the person debunking
the claims, is that no one will understand his stats either.(nor
will most people want to believe them).
What will happen is that a handful of both the proponents and the debunkers
will end up talking past one another.
I really do believe that
theomatics holds much better potential for scientific verification than
anything else that has.(apparently).ever
been done, including ELS. The problem is convincing others of that fact.
If ELS eventually goes down, it is really going to hurt theomatics. If
ELS holds up, most everyone out there will automatically accept theomatics
as being more believable. It is unfortunate that it has to be that way.
I would feel like the republican who lost the election because he ran in
the year all the democrats swept into office. Del
Links to ELS Sites
We contemplated providing
a list of sites dealing with the Torah Codes, but there are so many it
is hard to pick and choose. For best results, use a search engine such
as Bing or Google and type in key words, such as: Torah codes, codes in
the Torah, Hebrew codes, such as 'Codes in the Pentateuch', 'ELS phenomena',
'The Signature of God', etc. You will bring up dozens of sites that will
provide lists and links to other sites. Be sure to search Usenet.(newsgroups).as
well as the Web.
One of the best places to
start, is the Resource Page at Georgia Tech.
Unlike theomatics, ELS does
not utilize the numerical values for the letters of the Hebrew and Greek
alphabets, nor does ELS work with the numerical values of words.
Theomatics is probably the
most solid, credible, valid and scientifically provable discovery of all
time, relative to God and the.Bible.
Yet nobody in the academic community is paying attention.
The facts are all right there,
in plain sight for everyone to see. But few people seem all that interested.
As almost 90,000 copies of our original book have sold and an innumerable
number of people have had their hearts blessed and touched deeply by this
discovery, it has seemed amazing that to date, no one has picked up on
all of this. Surely, the all wise and all knowing Sovereign Lord, has been
in control of it all.
