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Summary: This book was a refreshing application of statistics.
Review: As a civil engineer who routinely uses statistics to evaluate the structural and surface integrity of roads and airfield pavements, I found Dr. Ingermanson's book very novel and refreshing. His application of the scientific method and statistics to determine who wrote the Bible code was much more interesting than my usual experience. The author very ingeniously analyzed the procedures and results of various proponents of the Bible code with familiar analogies, in non-technical language, and without math equations shown in his book. His approach led me to a new appreciation of a common tool, statistics; and, I believe the odds are that most people who read this book will learn much more than the answer to the question in the book's title.
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Summary: Thourough Debunking of the Codes
Review: Debunks the "codes" easily. People promoting the codes like Drosin and his aliens and Jeffery and is horrible scholarship should give it up and stop embarassing themselves. Buy their books and you are supporting their scams.
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Summary: Finally, a book that puts the controversy to rest!
Review: Dr. Ingermanson uses a scientific approach to settle the Bible codes issue once and for all. Amazingly enough, his book is easy and enjoyable to read -- even for someone like me who can't stay awake for typical non-fiction books. He uses humor and a down to earth approach to make what could have been a very technical subject simple and easy to understand. Not only does he explain the evidence for and against the existence of "Bible codes", but he designs and performs an elegant experiment that settles the whole issue. Who Wrote the Bible Code is a wonderfully written book and a brilliant piece of scholarship!
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Summary: Excellent analysis, still...
Review: Dr. Ingermanson's approach is nothing if not fair and unbiased. It has the right mix of friendly banter and lecture type language. The bibliography contains related web sites to the Bible code controversy including Ingermanson's own site. These sites are the best place to begin a comprehensive study of the Bible/Torah codes, which I plan to do.The first, and only other, book I have read on this subject is the one by Drosnin. The Bible Code seems very convincing. I may have missed it in Who Wrote the Bible Code?, but Dr. Ingermanson does not address the topic of relevant information. i.e. in Drosnin's book, the name Rabin is intersected by the phrase assassin will assassinate. Anyone familiar with Bible code terminology knows what I mean by intersected. Dr. Ingermanson would do well to address this point on his web page. This book is a great place to start if you are at all interested in the Bible/Torah code. 26 DEC 99
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Summary: An excellent easy read on a controversial subject
Review: For those slightly curious or wanting to know more about the Bible Code phenomenon "Who Wrote the Bible Code? by Dr. Randall Ingermanson is an excellent source. It is an easy read that brings you along in a logical step by step fashion through to a final conclusion. Dr. Ingermanson skillfully guides the reader through the statistical and mathematical necessities to the final point of truth. I will not disclose the results, it's up to you to enjoy the book chapter by chapter to the journeys end.
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Summary: The author missed the point
Review: Having read the book, I was astounded that the author has missed the point of the original published statistical paper on the Bible Code. What he has shown is that the Bible does not contain a hidden message at any particular skip code. The Bible Code is not at any particular skip sequence, but is single words in different skip patterns in close proximity. His computer code, though interesting, disproves what no one claims. Read Cracking the Bible Code for a more scientific and clear explaination of the Bible Code debate.
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Summary: Answers the question of who, if anyone, wrote the codes.
Review: It is refreshing to read a book such as Dr. Ingermanson's Who Wrote the Bible Code? Codes along with cyphers are a form of writing usually used in an attempt to convey messages in secrecy. The better to keep the secret, the better the code. Many of these messages have had their secrecy broken by the use of computers. Bible codes discussed in Dr. Ingermanson's book offer another twist. Apparently, the code's author wants to have the secret discovered, but only the use of computers has made this discovery thousands of years after the codes were written. It is satisfying then to find the codes existence disproved also using, you guessed it, computers. With the authors of other books each claiming that their computer found or didn't find a code, we can be expected to wonder who is correct. Dr. Ingermanson's careful use of statistics and easy to understand explanations of good scientific process applied to this problem go a long way to answering that question. I found the book interesting, with humor to help get through difficult conceptual explanations. He has put to rest the question for now, but no doubt it will not be long before another book on the subject will appear. Let's hope it is as rigorous as this one.
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Summary: codes nothing but a fluke!
Review: just finished reading this book. what can i say? this book seems to finally put the controversy to rest. PHEW! what a relief,i thought i may actually have to start believing in god or something. this book is full of data and statistical analyses. it isn`t much like all the other bible code books out there, and i`ve read most of them. my favorite is cracking the bible code by j. satinover. this book(dr. ingermanson) is more scientific and gets down to the dirty work of disproving the codes scientifically. he calls himself a computer geek in his bio. and after reading his book i`d have to agree with him. he has a strange sense of humour as well, almost appeasing. great book and puts the debate to rest once and for all.
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Summary: codes nothing but a fluke!
Review: just finished reading this book. what can i say? this book seems to finally put the controversy to rest. PHEW! what a relief,i thought i may actually have to start believing in god or something. this book is full of data and statistical analyses. it isn`t much like all the other bible code books out there, and i`ve read most of them. my favorite is cracking the bible code by j. satinover. this book(dr. ingermanson) is more scientific and gets down to the dirty work of disproving the codes scientifically. he calls himself a computer geek in his bio. and after reading his book i`d have to agree with him. he has a strange sense of humour as well, almost appeasing. great book and puts the debate to rest once and for all.
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Summary: Thourough Debunking of the Codes
Review: The author of Who Wrote the Bible Code? attempts to analyze the text of the Bible with statistics, to see if there is an unusually high amount of patterns which could be a sign of statistically significant ELSs. Since he does not find anything, the author concludes that the "Bible Codes" aren't very likely to exist. I could be wrong, but I don't think his conclusion is logical based on his reasoning. Just because there isn't a greater amount of ELSs in the Bible than in other books, doesn't mean that the ELSs that the Bible does have has no more significance than the ELSs in other books. For example, this does not seem to disprove that a name and a date of birth which someone predicts will be found as a statistically significant ELS will not be valid. All it suggests is that we probably wont find more random names and dates in the Bible than we would in another text. I believe the author's conclusions that the Bible code is a fake, is true, but for the wrong reasons. ... I also had some other problems with this book. First, the technical appendixes weren't included with the book, but only on the author's website. If I wanted to read a website, I wouldn't have purchased the book. Second, I think the book should have provided more background on the Bible code, and on existing refutations of it. One thing that wasn't so bad about the book were the amusing stories of the author's personal experiences which the author included. Also, the introduction to probability seemed reasonably okay. This book provides a unique approach to checking the Bible Code's validity, but unfortunately I don't think it succeeds in providing sufficient evidence of the status of the Bible Code's validity. I would recommend saving your money.
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