“Many conspiracy theorists seem very keen on the idea of hidden messages or codes secretly embedded within ancient writings. Believers claim hidden prophecies of significant world events and disasters can be uncovered and deciphered by analysing the Bible. By simply selecting a random paragraph and taking out the punctuation and merely inserting the passage into a matrix a skeptic, if suitably motivated, and with the benefit of hindsight is easily able to uncover whatever it is they fancy. Believers see predictions of the assassination of President Kennedy and the 9/11 twin towers terrorist attack uncovered in the bible as irrefutable evidence of divine revelation even though rational thinkers can locate predictions of the death of Leon Trotsky and Princess Diana secreted within “Moby Dick”.” – [Science, Reason and Critical Thinking]
This is one of the many great posts from forgetomori – a great blog well worth following – please visit and enjoy.
UPDATE: I recently found out this was from Crispian Jago in reference to the Bible Code. You may remember Crispian for his wonderful set of Simpson’s Skeptics Top Trumps.
haha Derren i’ve caught onto your trick… left to right
figure it out yourself…
Ha ha ha, awesome!
Has anyone tried this with The God Delusion?
it fascinates me how this stuff always seems to work out, no matter what yer using!
How on earth can a individual alien get a steel obelisk for leaving a message? Could it perform miracles? biblecode=tonnesoftauras
Is this not a case though (as with a lot of things), that anything can be found if you have a theory and you look hard enough into something for that theory? Hmm, maybe I’m wrong…..
LC x
Owe this is very smart, I think I will safe this picture for one of my mentalism or psychology lectures to illustrate the fact that seemingly “special” things happen to well over 90% of us.
Running into your long lost friend at the great wall of China, or thinking of a person you haven’t seen in a long time and within a week you run into them. Or a person who as the same phone number as you only the last digit is different.
Very small coincidences which happen to the majority of us yet when you analyze the odds it’s not that weird at all but our psyche makes it special.
Get out a shuffled deck of cards now name two values of cards ace-through-king (for example 2 and king), go through the deck and see if any of these cards are adjacent to each other. Be very amazed! Though the chances are a lot higher than you think.