A Skeptic’s Guide to Bible Codes
This article first appeared as a Vic Skeptics discussion pamphlet and was first posted here in March 2011.
by Peter Barrett, Canberra Skeptics, updated by Ken Greatorex
In the late 1990s, a book called “The Bible Code” was published. Its author, Michael Drosnin, claimed that a high-powered computer program had uncovered a large number of secret messages in the Jewish Bible (the Christian Old Testament). The most amazing claim was that a few years before the book’s publication, this program had discovered that the then Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzakh Rabin, faced assassination. Several months after Drosnin and his partners warned him, Mr Rabin was assassinated. View More A Skeptic’s Guide to Bible Codes
