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In soc.culture.jewish on 17 Sep 1997 16:20:49 GMT
jl...@engin.umich.edu (Jacob Love) posted:


>In article <3434fc19....@news.pacificnet.net>,
>Kevin D. Quitt <Ke...@Quitt.net> wrote:

>[responding to others who were responding to me]

>>Your last comment is correct, but you have the rest of it backwards.  They
>>don't need an infinite amount of time or an infinite number of monkeys.
>>But given infinite time, you *will* get Shakespeare.  You might get it
>>next week, or in 10^14 years, or in a really, really long time.  Given an
>>infinite number of monkeys, you'll have your Shakespeare in the day or
>>week it takes of the monkeys to type it.  You'll also have an infinite
>>number of copies that each have one of the letters wrong, and two, etc.
>>
>>
>>>At any rate the Torah is far from infinite,
>>>so, except for the last sentence, I think this last paragraph doesn't
>>>apply at all.
>>
>>Good.  I was nit-picking, anyway.

>In fact, that is the overall reason I decided not to bother replying
>the first go-round.

>The *truly* critical point is that similar sorts of "codes" can be
>generated from a wide variety of other texts. So the question to codes
>quacks is "If we demonstrate the same 'codes' in Moby Dick, are you
>going to assert some divine quality to that work?"

I thought I wrote that if codes of such high degree of closeness and
such low ELS are found all over the place, it would probably show that

the math was done wrong in the first place.

> To the Jewish
>fundamentalists: "If we look at the Christian Bible and discover lots
>of 'codes' (with and/or without vowels) in *that* text, will you
>suddently concede the divine nature of those books?" 

Now if it is *only* in Genesis and Matthew, for example, I would say
ooooeeeeooo.   But I would say the same thing if I came home and found
the house I grew up in sitting on my lot in another city.  Neither of
these has happened yet (except the Genesis part) so I am not going to
worry about it yet.

>To Christians:
>"If the Book of Mormon contains similar 'codes', will you be adopting
>it in addition to your Scripture any time soon?" How about the Kama
>Sutra?

'If' is such a big word.

>I'd ask what it would take to make this nonsense go away, but as a
>ten year veteran of UseNet, I sadly know the answer to that question.
>I might even make a prophesy.

I am ready to quit this but people keep bringing it up again.


>Jack F. Love
>Opinions expressed are mine alone, unless you happen to agree

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meir