Answers to Various Control Tests
September 21, 1999
(Last updated March 19, 2000)
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Dr. James Price and others have run various control tests on the Tanach, or portions of the Tanach. None of these tests prove anything, because the error is that they did not account for the structure of the codes in their testing.



Positive and Negative Nouns

For example, Dr. Price has run tests saying that for every noun found in the Torah, he could find a negative phrase for that noun. This again, proves nothing. Dr. Price is working with single phrases. Both positive and negative single phrases found all by themselves, are found by chance. If "Joe" is found in the Torah, and "No Joe" is found in the Torah, what does that prove? Nothing, except that both of those are found by chance. As mentioned in the Negative Codes article, in order for these types of tests to be valid experiments, they need to find entire negative matrixes.

Number of Times Words are Found, Compared to Other Texts

Brendan McKay and others have run tests about how many times in the Torah certain words are found, and then comparing that number to that of a random text. This, again, proves nothing. It is true that you can find just about any word that is found encoded in the Bible, in any book similar in size. We already know that, so those experiments are pointless. The difference is that you cannot find patterns of complex code matrixes (with multiple thematically related words clustered together), in any book outside the Bible.

Number of Words Found in a Single Chapter

Dr. Price has run experiments that show how many ELS words can be found in Isaiah 53. The experiment is meant to downplay Grant Jeffrey's Yeshua-Messiah code. Dr. Price found over 165,000 words in the chapter, but there were only 5,903 different words, most of them short random words. That 165,000 is so high, because when you get 2-3 letter words, some of them can be found thousands of times per chapter by themselves. Again, to find how many words you can find in the chapter proves nothing. If Grant's code is by chance, find a similar code in another text similar in size. Grant has had a challenge out for 2 years to do this, and nobody has been able to meet it. If you want to disprove the Isaiah 53 codes, find all the 40+ words that Jeffrey found in the same amount of text in an alternate text.

Probability of Finding Certain Words

People have done experiments saying that just about every word that has been found encoded in the Bible should be found by chance. That is correct. There is a major flaw in these experiments as well. They are forgetting the structure. If I find ten words that all relate to each other, and these ten words are found only once in the Torah each, yet I find all of them in the same chapter, is that not significant? Yes, it's possible to find these words by chance, but all of them in the same small area? The tests do not take the placement of the codes into consideration.

When you read about experiments on the internet, remember the above answers. All the experiments usually fail to take into account the structure of the codes.

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