There are alsopeople who claim that the Bible has texts in it (say if you look at every seventh letter and so on, it'll say something like predict Lady Di's death and so on) and when confronted by someone who understood what was going on, who claimed that it would happen with any sufficiently long piece of text, they suggested that it be tried with Moby Dick. So they did. And it worked, better than the Bible.
So much for the Bible - out performed by Moby Dick.
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Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:42,
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So much for the Bible - out performed by Moby Dick.
Also, they're deliberately searching for strings like 'God exists'.Did they search for strings like 'otters knitting' or 'worship Satan'? I bet plenty of silly results would turn up too if you looked for them.
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Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:50,
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YupAnd, you don't have to look in anything that looks like legible text either. You can just use random letter sequences.
When you think about it, it's all a bit arbitrary anyway. The alphabet we use nowadays is not the same as the one that it was written in, whenever it was really written down (however long after the event/myth was supposed ot have happened.
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Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:57,
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When you think about it, it's all a bit arbitrary anyway. The alphabet we use nowadays is not the same as the one that it was written in, whenever it was really written down (however long after the event/myth was supposed ot have happened.