In his books The Bible Code (1997) and its sequel, the Bible Code II (2002), Michael Drosnin claims that there are secret prophecies encoded in the Hebrew Pentateuch, readable using software that takes every nth letter and helps you search the text blocks for patterns. In the first book, Drosnin claimed that the code predicted Yitzhak Rabin's assasination, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the end of the world in 2000 (ooops!). The sequel highlights predictions of "more current" events like the Bush/Gore election controversy and, natch, 9/11.
Physicist Dave Thomas applied the same technique to an excerpt from the Bible Code II he grabbed off Amazon.com and discovered this important message:
"THE BIBLE CODE IS A SILLY, DUMB, FAKE, FALSE, EVIL, NASTY, DISMAL FRAUD AND SNAKE-OIL HOAX."
More on this Bible Code crap in Michael "The Skeptic" Shermer's latest column in Scientific American….
