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June 04, 2006
The Lords’ Witnesses Use Advanced Numerology to Predict Terrorist Attack!
Jim West calls our attention to some particularly funny stuff. The Lords’ Witnesses, that's the name of a group of "researchers," tell us that, "Bible Scholars Predict 85% Probability of a Nuclear Terrorist Attack on the UN Complex in Manhattan on June 9 or 10." Giving themselves a 15% probability of being wrong is a nice little touch. It's a 85% win - 15% win game for them. In other words, they can't lose. Their prediction is based on yet another "decoding" of the Bible. And they support it with some of the most off the wall nonsense every committed to paper or DVD. As we are told,
They have presented these results in a paper and in the form of two lectures on DVDs to 200 academic statisticians around the world. As yet none of them have been able to disprove their findings.
As Jim oh so correctly says, ". . . no 'bible scholar' would ever claim what is claimed by the report." What Jim doesn't say is that no competent statistician would waste his or her time evaluating such a claim. My guess is that none of the statisticians has tried "to disprove their findings." Despite a lot of word counts, the claim has no mathematical basis. When I see something like this, I never know whether to laugh or cry. So I laugh.
Posted by DuaneSmith at June 4, 2006 06:23 PM | Read more on Religion |
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But Duane, I can't comment on what statisticians would or wouldn't do because I don't know anything about that field! I'm lucky if I can keep money in the bank and not overdraw my checkbook. Anything more complicated than that is wayyyyyyyyyy beyond me! ;-)
Posted by: Jim at June 5, 2006 01:28 PM
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