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Comment author: CarlShulman 16 September 2009 02:21:24AM *  14 points [-]

"one of them won a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory. I really don't think we want to call these people "crazy".)"

Aumann is a religious Orthodox Jew who has supported Bible Code research. He's brilliant and an expert, but yes, he's crazy according to local mores.

Of course, that doesn't mean we should dismiss his work. Newton spent much of his life on Christian mysticism.

Comment author: arundelo 16 September 2009 03:53:22AM *  8 points [-]

Aumann [...] has supported Bible Code research.

Wow!

Google tells me:

The Bible code is simply a fact. [Quoted in a book published in 1997.]

and

Research conducted under my own supervision failed to confirm the existence of the codes -- though it also did not establish their non-existence. So I must return to my a priori estimate, that the Codes phenomenon is improbable. [From a paper published in 2004.]

Comment author: CronoDAS 16 September 2009 05:34:45AM 3 points [-]

As I'm sure we all know, the so-called "bible code" turned out to be a way to find just about any phrase you want from any document whatsoever.

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