Talk:Michael Drosnin
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This article makes various accusations about the work of the author, however it does not cite any sources that show where these accusations come from or the basis upon which these accusations are made. Adding citations will help us evaluate these accusations and should make this article NPOV. Thank you for your input, please put any source information on the Talk:Michael Drosnin/facts page. Alex756 04:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] space aliens
in the first bible code book that drosnin wrote he does claim that extraterrestrials relayed the message of the bible to primitive humans, he also claims to be an athiest
[edit] Apocalypse when?
So this apocalypse that Drosnin predicts between 1998 and 2006, did I miss it? --Slashme 12:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- It was going to happen but Drosnin's warning allowed us to avert the disaster. That's what he will claim (wait for book #3 to see if I'm right). McKay 00:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I don't see how he could. If the Bible is indeed infallible, then the Bible codes aren't predictions (which could be right or could be wrong) but more future statements of fact (which will happen, no matter what anyone does). The other possibilities are either his math was wrong this time (since he stated he found the 2006 codes over and over again, it would be difficult to make the same exact mistake over and over again) or his entire equation for finding the codes is off (which means he would have to go back and re-do every code he found, including the Rabin assassination). Or am I missing something here? Patken4 22:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- You aren't missing anything. The real story is that the whole subject is crackpot and applying logic to it is a waste of time. McKay 03:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
- I don't see how he could. If the Bible is indeed infallible, then the Bible codes aren't predictions (which could be right or could be wrong) but more future statements of fact (which will happen, no matter what anyone does). The other possibilities are either his math was wrong this time (since he stated he found the 2006 codes over and over again, it would be difficult to make the same exact mistake over and over again) or his entire equation for finding the codes is off (which means he would have to go back and re-do every code he found, including the Rabin assassination). Or am I missing something here? Patken4 22:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Computer Program
I deleted the following text: "and that the code can be easily interpreted through the pioneer computer program created by Alexander Rotenberg, with Dr. A. Smirnov and Dr. Alexander Polishuk." No such claim is made in Drosnin's book. In fact Drosnin does not attribute the program to anyone (except maybe to Rips). Later a different Israeli programmer Yochanan Spielberg sued Drosnin in a US court, claiming breach of contract (he says Drosnin promised to advertise the program in the book) and breach of copyright (on the grounds that Drosnin's letter arrays were produced by Spielberg's programs). Spielberg lost on both counts (on the grounds that there is insufficient proof of contact, and letter arrays are not copyrightable). In any case, the point here is that there is no reason whatever to credit Rotenberg, Smirnov and Polishuk. McKay 06:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
