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Codes Opening the Sealed Book About Those Codes Have you seen or read Carl Sagan's novel Contact? On the off-chance you're not familiar with the story, it's about receiving a message—an unambiguous signal that humanity is not alone. How, I wonder, might that information affect our civilization? The Torah Codes seem to be just such a signal. A signal received some 3,300 years ago. Battles rage over the validity of these codes. While detractors abound, and their web sites are well-stocked with their arguements, in the six years since the publication of "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" in Vol. 9, No. 3, of Statistical Science [1994], only one rebuttal has been published. I've yet to locate that paper, but the reply to it may be found here. In that original issue of Statistical Science, the journal's editor, Robert E. Kass, Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, wrote: Our referees were baffled: their prior beliefs made them think the Book of Genesis could not possibly contain meaningful references to modern-day individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks the effects persisted. The paper is thus offered to Statistical Science readers as a challenging puzzle. The "additional analyses and checks" were performed at the behest of three separate referees, professional mathematicians whose function is to verify the results as sound. In the end, after six years of meeting each and every challenge, the paper was published and the rarefied air of certain academic circles began to roil. Why this story hasn't caught the attention of the mainstream press is beyond me. But explaining the particulars isn't. Interested? Making Props |