What is another name for the Bible Code?”
The Bible code, also known as the Torah code, is a series of messages alleged to exist within the Bible text, that when decoded form words and phrases supposedly demonstrating foreknowledge and prophecy. The study and results from this cipher have been popularized by the book The Bible Code. Criticism: The primary objection advanced against Bible codes is that information theory does not prohibit “noise” from appearing to be sometimes meaningful. Thus, if data chosen for ELS experiments are intentionally or unintentionally “cooked” before the experiment is defined, similar patterns can be found in texts other than the Torah. Although the probability of an ELS in a random place being a meaningful word is small, there are so many possible starting points and skip patterns that many such words can be expected to appear, depending on the details chosen for the experiment, and that it is possible to “tune” an ELS experiment to achieve a result which appears to exhibit patterns that overcome
The Bible code, also known as the Torah code, is a series of messages alleged to exist within the Bible text, that when decoded form words and phrases supposedly demonstrating foreknowledge and prophecy. The study and results from this cipher have been popularized by the book The Bible Code. Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption method became widespread in 1994 when Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg published a paper, “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” in the scientific journal Statistical Science[1]. The paper, which was presented by the journal as a “challenging puzzle”, claimed to present strong statistical evidence that biographical information about famous rabbis was encoded in the text of the Bible, centuries before those rabbis lived. Since then the term “Bible Codes” has been popularly used to refer specifically to information encrypted via the ELS method. Since the Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (WRR) paper was publ
