Gematria and Theomatics Divination Opposing Views

This category is for sites criticizing the belief in the various codes or methods of interpretion in holy books involving numerology. Many books, including the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Book of Mormon, are believed to have messages hidden inside them through which believers can foretell the future or discover knowledge. Theomatics can refer to gematria or to other types of holy book codes. The most common type of theomatics is ELS, or the equidistant letter sequence phenomenon. Through this method, a search is done through a text picking up every Nth letter. These letters are believed to produce meaningful words and phrases.

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• - Resources and information relating to Ivan Panin and his research and alleged patterns in the Torah or Qur'an.
  
• - Article discussing the probability of finding encoded messages in a given text and giving examples as evidence for the Bible codes being mere coincidences.
  
• - Explanation of the methods used to find hidden codes, discussion of the flaws in reasoning and research involved, and links to related sites.
  
• - Article by David Washburn on some of the problems with the theories presented in "The Bible Code."
  
• - A variety of articles and resources criticizing claims of codes in the Qur'an and Bible as well as links to sites proposing such ideas.
  
• - Discusses problems in the Torah code theories with images of Hebrew text to illustrate the ELS phenomenon.
  
• - Spoof of the methods of those who attempt to use gematria to prove the truth of their religion.
  
• - Assertion that the Bible and Torah code theories are unsubstantiated, signed by professors or holders of PhDs in the area of mathematics or statistics.
  
• - Brief essay comparing claims of hidden codes in the Bible or Qur'an to an illusionist's card trick.
  
• - Several articles detailing research and experimentation by a mathematics professor that disprove the Bible code theories.
  
• - Satirical overview of the so-called prophecy found in US patents papers.
  
• - Discussion of the problems in Michael Drosnin's book "The Bible Code," examples of hidden messages in "Treasure Island," and an explanation of the illogic behind claims made by some proponents of gematria.
  
• - Brief article refuting previous research by the author and explaining the errors in the Bible code theory.
  
• - Addresses the question of whether Jesus' name is encoded in Genesis. Hebrew text examples, graphs, expert opinions, and text of the search program used.
  
• - Papers and statistical data describing experiments done to evaluate the work of Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg.
  
• - Articles, answers to challenges, experimental data, and Real Audio and Real Video versions of a presentation given on the topic.
  
• - Explanation of techniques for finding codes and discussion of the limitations of the popular code-finding software and the theory in general. From a Christian perspective.
  
• - Article criticizing the attempts by some Christians to convert Jews by claiming that references to Jesus as the messiah are encoded in the Torah.
  
• - A Christian layman's thoughts on the Bible Code controversy, links to sites both for and against this idea.
  
• - Discusses the findings of the academic journal "Statistical Science" that challenge the Bible code theories.
  
  

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