If you recall, the Bible codes are seemingly significant words spelled out by picking out every n th letter from a passage in the Bible. These equidistant letter sequences, ELSes for short, are alleged to foretell events that occurred long after the books were written. There are Christian and Jewish variants as well as Islamic analogues in the Koran. Here's an amusing example discovered by David Thomas, a physicist who has studied the frequency of these equidistant letter sequences. Thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
Chances are, no, to say the least.
The mathematically sophisticated article by Doron Witzum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg described many sequences in the Hebrew text of Genesis and calculated the probability of their occurrence to be vanishingly small, leading some to assert the codes' divine origin. With this less than ringing scholarly imprimatur, the findings were soon elaborated upon in author Michael Drosnin's 1997 best-selling book, The Bible Code, and in countless popular accounts. Although most religious people and virtually all nonreligious people dismissed them, the codes convinced more than a few to become devoutly observant. Refuting the Original Findings Because of the usual media practice of sensational headline allegations followed much later by barely noticeable corrections, you probably haven't heard of the detailed, 45-page refutation that was published in September. We present extensive evidence in support of that conclusion.