posted on May, 16 2003 @ 03:34 AM
OKay....
So you read a book that is a pile of crock (to be polite) as the review quoted below states..
www.rsingermanson.com...
from the "book with no content" you draw the story of the of the oblisk and accept it at face value as "interesting, very interesting". Well sure
it is... so is fiction.
Here is some more of the book review...
There's a bit more in the book besides giving peace a chance. Drosnin believes that there's some sort of alien artifact near a place called Lisan on
the east coast of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is lowering, you see, and there are places now on dry land that have been underwater for the last few
thousand years. Drosnin finds a whole pile of "codes" that give him more and more information on this mythical artifact. It's an obelisk. It's a
steel vehicle. It's an alien code. It's the key.
Drosnin spends a bit of time building this up with an account of his attempts to get permission to dig at the site. Wouldn't you know it, those
Jordanians wouldn't give permission? There's no peace in the area, you see, and Drosnin is Jewish, so they just won't let him find that dratted
obelisk which will be the fix to all our problems. That's his explanation anyway. A cynic might suggest that maybe the Jordanians just think
Drosnin's a whackball.
There's still more. Drosnin spends much time telling us of his many encounters with Eliyahu Rips, the Israeli mathematician who is one of the very
few scientists who believe in the Bible codes. Drosnin even gives Doron Witztum a little air time in this book. Witztum is the fellow who wrote that
famous paper with Rips that got so much press time in 1994 and since. For some reason, Mr. Drosnin has given Witztum extremely low coverage in his two
books. But it's Rips again in this book, over and over, telling us of the claimed low probabilities that any of these codes could happen by chance.
There is no way to check any of these, since Drosnin doesn't tell us how those probabilities were calculated. Which is probably just as well, since
such calculations by Bible coders are notoriously . . . wrong.
... read the rest of this interesting, very interesting, book review on the site, then go and buy some other better written fiction.