From: "Nicky Molloy" 
Subject: SNET: Scientists prove Divine Author of Genesis
Date: 5 Jan 2000 05:36:17 -0500
To: "The Eagle Net" , "SNET" ,
        "earthman" , "Dick Ford" ,
        "Brian" 


->  SNETNEWS  Mailing List

 http://www.av1611.org/genesis.html
http://www.av1611.org/tracts.html

Scientists prove Divine Author of Genesis


Scientists have discovered "encoded" in the Genesis text -- names, dates and
events from the nineteenth century! "The phenomenon cannot be attributed to
ANYTHING within the KNOWN PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, human beings included."
(Biblical Review, October 1995, p.45) Irrefutable proof the Bible is the
words of God!


by Terry Watkins



"We conclude that the proximity of ELS's (Equidistant Letter Sequences) with
related meanings in the Book of Genesis is NOT DUE TO CHANCE."
("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science,
August 1994, p.434 )

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
"The phenomenon cannot be attributed to ANYTHING within the KNOWN PHYSICAL
UNIVERSE, human beings included."
("Divine Authorship?", Biblical Review, October 1995, p.45)


Three mathematical statisticians, Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav
Rosenberg of the Jerusalem College of Technology and the Hebrew University,
discovered words encoded in the Genesis text that was humanly impossible!

For they found related names, events and dates from the nineteenth century!

Only someone who knows the future could have placed them there!

The three mathematicians submitted their findings to the prestigious
scientific journal Statistical Science for publishing, Editor Robert Kass,
said:


"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 effect persisted." ("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of
Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994, p.306 )

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----


Here's the details of their amazing discovery:

The Hebrew text of Genesis (the textus receptus or Masoretic text, which
ONLY the King James Bible is from, ALL new versions use other texts) was
converted to a continual string of letters. The letters were placed into a
two-dimensional array, which simply means, the letters were divided into
rows, each row containing a certain number of letters. For example:


     (row 1)   KHASDSERYQDWHADIKOTESNSINFGBE
     (row 2)   HOKNFRWDSCKAPMIENNFUMIEUBEYIC
     (row 3)   JOLMSUDBDYIWIDIDNEYOPGHEBEBVX

Using computers, they then searched the Hebrew text. They discovered words
composed of letters at various equal skip distances, or "equidistant letter
sequences". For example, every second, third or fourth letter formed the
encoded words. The word "house" might look like this:


     (every second letter)    HXOXUXSXE
     (every third letter)     HXXOXXUXXSXXE

Simply finding encoded words is nothing unusual. . .



But they discovered something that was!

In "close proximity" were related word-pairs. For example, the researchers
found the name "Zedekiah" (a sixth century B.C. king of Judah) and in "close
proximity" was the word "Mantanya" which was Zedekiah's original name! They
found "Hanukkah" (the Jewish festival that commemorates the re-dedication of
the Temple after it was recaptured from the Assyrians in the second century
B.C.) and in close proximity was the word "Hasmoneans" which was the family
name of the leaders of the Jewish armies that took the temple from the
Assyrians for which Hanukkah celebrates!

It was humanly impossible for the author of Genesis to know this in 2300
B.C.! Not to mention the impossibility of encoding meaningful related
"equidistant letters" into a text and then the text itself make sense!

The researchers selected, at random, 300 such related Hebrew word-pairs from
names and events that occurred hundreds and thousands of years after Genesis
was written. And of these 300 related name-event pairs.

ALL 300 WERE FOUND!
Looking for some coincidental explanation they searched for the word-pairs
in simple randomized tests! But they were not found! The word-pairs were
ONLY found in close proximity to each other proving irrefutably that the
encoded word-pairs were not coincident or accident but were intellectually
encoded by a superior intelligence!

The scientists stated the statistical odds of this occurring by chance are
less than 1 in 50 quadrillion that's 1 in 50,000,000,000,000,000! According
to scientific analysis a finding of less than 1 in 20 is significant!

One fact is crystal clear -- the Author of Genesis was not human!

Biblical Review magazine, commenting on these findings stated:

"The capacity to embed so many, meaningfully related, randomly selected
word-pairs in a body of text with a coherent surface meaning is stupendously
beyond the intellectual capacity of ANY HUMAN BEING or group of people,
however brilliant, and equally beyond the capacity of ANY CONCEIVABLE
COMPUTING DEVICE." ("Divine Authorship?", Biblical Review, October 1995,
p.31)

Five distinguished mathematical scholars, two from Harvard, two from Hebrew
University and one from Yale, issued the following statement:

"The present work represents serious research carried out by serious
investigators. Since the interpretation of the phenomenon in question is
enigmatic and controversial, one may want to demand a level of statistical
significance beyond what would be demanded for more routine conclusions...
[T]he results obtained are sufficiently striking to deserve a wider audience
and to encourage further study." (Biblical Review,"Divine Authorship?",
October 1995, p.31)

More demanding tests were performed ...



And more discoveries were found!

The skeptical scientists went one step further. . . Instead of searching for
simple pairs of related words, they took the Hebrew reference book, The
Encyclopedia of Great Men in Israel (Margalioth, M., ed. (1961)) and found
the 34 most prominent men in Israeli history from the ninth to the
nineteenth centuries! They paired the names with the day of birth or death
(Hebrew numbers are represented as letters). The author of Genesis could not
possibly foresee these men 4,000 years before their birth and definitely not
their birth or death date -- UNLESS THE AUTHOR WAS GOD!

Using the computer analysis, the scientists searched the Hebrew text for the
34 name-date pairs. Remember, they had to be "equidistant" and in "close
proximity" to register a "hit". And how many did they find?

EVERY ONE!

ALL 34 NAMES AND DATES WERE FOUND!!!

The bewildered scientists were baffled!



This was not HUMANLY possible!

Not believing what they were seeing they repeated the test. They picked the
next 34 most prominent men from the encyclopedia. Because the dates of the
death for 2 of these men were not known, the second test included 32 men.
And how many did they find?



ALL 32 WERE FOUND!!!

There is not the least possible chance that these findings were an accident!

Someone with a far superior intelligence than you or I had to have encoded
these prophetic names, dates, and events!

Statistical Science concluded:


"We conclude that the proximity of ELS's (Equidistant Letter Sequences) with
related meanings in the Book of Genesis is NOT DUE TO CHANCE." ("Equidistant
Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994,
p.434 )
Biblical Review stated:


"The phenomenon cannot be attributed to ANYTHING within the KNOWN PHYSICAL
UNIVERSE, human beings included." ("Divine Authorship?", Biblical Review,
October 1995, p.45)
In other words there is only ONE possible explanation GOD!

Biblical Review also stated:


"What then was the purpose of encoding this information into the text? Some
would say it is the Author's signature. Is it His way of assuring us that at
this particular, late moment-when our scientific, materialistic doubt has
reached its apotheosis, when we have been driven to the brink of radical
skepticism- that He is precisely who He had said He is. . ." ("Divine
Authorship?", Biblical Review, October 1995, p.45)

The researchers ran the same tests using the Samaritan Pentateuch, which is
slightly different from the textus receptus or Masoretic text. According to
Biblical Review (p.44) "the phenomenon was UTTERLY LACKING in letter-level
variants. . ." They also tested other texts sacred and secular but no such
findings existed in ANY OTHER TEXT! Only the textus receptus! The textus
receptus is the text for the King James Bible! The new versions do not use
the textus receptus. The new versions are NOT the words of God! (Contact us
for more information on the new versions).





-> Send "subscribe   snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com
->  Posted by: "Nicky Molloy"

Disclaimer: The file contained in the box above or displayed in a separate window from a link in the box above is NOT owned nor implied to be owned by BeYoND THe iLLuSioN. Most files at BeYoND THe iLLuSioN are originally from public Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) which were popular in the days before the Internet or from gopher, web, and FTP sites from the early days of the Internet which no longer exist today. Essentially, all files were acquired from the public domain in one for or another.

However, there have been occasions when copyright protected material has appeared on BeYoND THe iLLuSIoN without permission of the copyright holder. In these instances, we have and will continue to remove the copyright protected file as soon as it is brought to our attention. This can now be done using our Report Copyright Material form. Fill out the form, and the webmaster will be notified of the situation.

There are also times when files found on BeYoND THe iLLuSioN have a real home somewhere else on the Internet. In these instances, we will gladly replace the file with a link to its true home whenever it is brought to our attention. If you know of the true home of any of these files, you can use our Report Original URL form to bring it yo our attention.