Expert: Tom Schott - 3/18/2005

Question
dear deacon have you heard of the researchers using computers to find codes in the jewish torah to predict the future, should we believ in this, it as already says it had predicted the 911, world war 2,tsunami in asia and its predicting the world to end in 2012 and a warld war 3 in 2006? is this believable?i think it was started by someone name drosnin
heres a site if you dont knoe what im talking about http://exodus2006.com/3code.htm

Answer
Jason,

  I would not believe any of it. The whole thing rests on two dubious propositions: first, a literal reading of Scripture, and second, random patterns in the Hebrew to fit predesignated phrases. Not to mention the fact, that words like "America" and "USA" were not even known when the Scripture was written. It's baloney. Don't concern yourself with it.

Deacon Tom