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Helge Moulding <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote in article
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> Judson D. McClendon wrote:
> > Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> > > Helge Moulding  <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote:
> > > >I took that to mean that the names are from the Pentateuch. 
> > > The article you mention above has a link to the list that was used.
> > One supposes that a person in the 9th to 18th centuries could have 
> > a name like 'Joshua', which is also in Genesis, 
> 
> Of course. My apologies for misunderstanding. So that leaves the
> search checking for common Hebrew names in a text chock full with
> common Hebrew names. Still not impressive; just the idea that they 
> were put there on purpose is a lot less likely.

You apparently haven't studied the original article in Statistical Review. 
To put it simply, the significance is not just that the names and
birth/death dates were found, because one would expect to do so in a
sufficiently large text.  The significance of the statistical finding is
that there was an enormously significant correlation (on the order of
100,000 to 1) that the birth and death dates were found in 'close
proximity' to names to which they belong, but not to the names with which
they did not belong.

The actual correlation is somewhat analogous to selecting several dozen
prominent people, and for each person writing the name, birth date and
death dates on three identical pieces of cardboard and placing all of the
pieces into three bowls, one bowl for names, one for birth dates and one
for death dates.  Then you repeatedly draw one piece of cardboard from each
bowl and find that every time you are drawing a name and the dates which
match that name!  This situation could only happen if somebody messed with
the order of the cards to make it happen.  And that is the point, that no
such correlation would be present unless some 'intelligence' arranged it
so.  And this particular 'intelligence' knew the future, because all the
people in the test were born many hundreds of years after Genesis was
written.
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