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In soc.culture.jewish Yaakov Menken <men...@torah.org> wrote:

: All attempts to extract messages from Torah Codes or to make
: predictions based on them are futile and of no value, said the
: world-renowned Hebrew University Professor of Mathematics, Eliyahu
: Rips at a press conference in Jerusalem today. The only conclusion
: that can be drawn from the scientific research regarding the Torah
: Codes is that they exist and that they are not a mere coincidence.

	The only proposition more difficult to swallow than the one put
forth by Drosnin, that there is significant information encoded concerning
past and future events, is the proposition that even though they are
there, and significant, one cannot look at the prior to an event taking
place and draw useful information from them.

	Either information is there above a statistically relevant
criteria, or it is not. If it is, then scanning in advance should yield
relevant information. If it is not, then it won't. But you cannot say that
you cannot see and use it earlier.

	The Rabin murderer's name was found afterwards. But it could have
been seen beforehand. Now, it's probably also true that there are a few
other names other than Amir encoded next to Rabin.

	So this is my point, as an example: If there are so many, that it
is statistically irrelevant to point to one ahead of time, then there is
no meaning to the code. In such a case it is wrong to conclude relevancy
by finding the name Amir after the fact. If, on the other hand, there are
not that many, then dredging up the few should be useful.

	Either it's one thing, or it's not. Not both ways.