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In his newly published book, _The Bible Code_, author Michael Drosnin 
reveals astounding predictions of, among other things, the Holocaust, 
the assasination of Rabin, and a yet to be cataclysmic earthquake in 
Los Angeles (well that's a no brainer -Ed).  The quake is predicted in 
the year 2010 but by then Drosnin will have already pocketed his profit.

An Israeli mathematician, Eliyahu Rips, challenges the validity of the 
predicting the future by codes embeded in text but supposedly agrees 
that there is a poorly understood code buried in the Hebrew Scriptures. 
He also states the Bible has predicted future events.  In fact it was 
Rips who found the code by running a computer analysis on the sequence 
of 304,805 letters after removing the spacing between words.

Drosnin seems to equivocate in that he says absolute certainties are not 
coded but possibilities are as though they were meant to be warnings. He 
also states that codes cannot be found in other literature, such as Moby 
Dick, yet I have heard claims of these types of predictions being found 
in the Koran.

The author goes on to say that discovery of these codes awaited the advent 
of the computer (duh -Ed) hence they were meant for our age which implies 
to me that he believes the hoofbeats of the approaching Apocalypse draw 
nigh.  Yet he also claims to be a non religious Jew who does not believe 
in God.  What gives?

I suppose a complex predictive code could theoretically be buried in a 
long text - kind of like a fractal but using letters.  And I suppose such 
a code could be the signature of a higher entity.  But maybe humans tend 
to find codes where non exist.  And if one did exist, how would we really 
know that the discoverer was not a crackpot?

This isn't the first Bible code I've heard of but it is the most complex.
Are these codes compatible, I wonder, or do they compete in a mutually 
exclusive way?  And how do they analyze text for such codes?  Can any 
of this work be taken seriously?

The Prophet