Drosnin also made a number of claims and alleged predictions that have since failed.

While Thomas ' methodology was alleged to have been refuted by Robert Haralick and others, Thomas's criticisms were aimed at Drosnin, whose methodology was actually far worse.

The Bible Code is a best-selling book by Michael Drosnin, first published in 1997.

Drosnin elaborates on this theory in The Bible Code II, suggesting that the alien who brought the code left the key to the code in a steel obelisk.

These Bible codes became known to the public primarily due to the American journalist Michael Drosnin, whose book The Bible Code ( Simon and Schuster, 1997 ) was a best-seller in many countries.

In 2002, Drosnin published a second book on the same subject, called Bible Code II: the Countdown.

On Drosnin's claim of Rabin's death, Drosnin wrote in his book " The Bible Code " ( published in 1997 ) on page 120 ; " Yigal Amir could not be found in advance ".

Among the most important, Drosnin clearly states in his book " The Bible Code II ", published on December 2, 2002, that there was to be a World War involving a " Atomic Holocaust " that would allegedly be the end of the world.

Another claim Drosnin makes in " The Bible Code II " is that the nation of Libya would develop weapons of mass destruction that they would then be given to terrorists who would then use them to attack the West ( specifically the United States ).

A final claim Drosnin made in " The Bible Code II " was that Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat would allegedly be assassinated by being shot to death by gunmen which Drosnin specifically stated would be from the Palestinian Hamas movement.

* The Bible Code, transcript of a story which aired on BBC Two, Thursday 20 November 2003, featuring comments by Drosnin, Rips, and McKay.

This, in turn, was the inspiration for the 1997 book The Bible Code by journalist Michael Drosnin.

* The Bible Code, transcript of a story which aired on BBC Two, Thursday 20 November 2003, featuring comments by Drosnin, Rips, and Brendan McKay.

Drosnin suggests that the Code was written by extraterrestrial life ( which he claims also brought the DNA of the human genetic code to Earth ).

Critics have noted a huge error in the " code " Drosnin claimed to have found, they note Drosnin used the Biblical verse Deuteronomy 4: 42.

Drosnin and others have responded to these claims, saying the tuning tactics employed by McKay were simply " nonsense ", and providing analyses to support their argument that the tables, data and methodologies McKay used to produce the Moby Dick results " simply do not qualify as code tables ".

Drosnin attempted to find this obelisk, which he believes is buried near the Dead Sea.

Writer Randy Ingermanson criticized Drosnin by stating that ; " And that's all they are, even for Drosnin -- possibilities.

If you are laying bets based on Drosnin, you had better be willing to bet on all possible outcomes.

In addition, McKay claimed that Drosnin had used the flexibility of Hebrew orthography to his advantage, freely mixing classic ( no vowels, Y and W strictly consonant ) and modern ( Y and W used to indicate i and u vowels ) modes, as well as variances in spelling of K and T, to reach the desired meaning.

* Michael Drosnin.

* Michael Drosnin.

* Michael Drosnin.

Scholars note ; " For example, citing again the passage intersecting with Rabin: that passage is from Deuteronomy 4: 42, but Drosnin ignores the words immediately following " a murderer who will murder.

Responding to an explicit challenge from Drosnin, who claimed that other texts such as Moby-Dick would not yield ELS results comparable to the Torah, McKay created a new experiment that was tuned to find many ELS letter arrays in Moby-Dick that relate to modern events, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

German author Andreas Kossert describes the post-war process of " national verification " as based on an ethnic racism which categorized the local populace according to their alleged ethnic background.

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

Barras's account of the visit describes the child as suffering from extreme neglect, but conveys no idea of the alleged walling in.

* John Berendt describes the alleged business relationship between James Arthur Williams and a conjure-woman called " Miz Minerva " in his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in which hoodoo practices play a significant part.

One of the stories about the demise of the Latin Emperor Baldwin describes his cruel dismemberment by an enraged Kaloyan, whose wife had falsely alleged that Baldwin had propositioned her, when he had in fact spurned her advances.

Gija Joseon (?– 194 BCE ) describes the period after the alleged arrival of Gija in the northwest of Korean peninsula.

There have also been public allegations regarding internal party funds, what he describes as his " unorthodox " fundraising of asking businesses for fees for introductions he facilitates in his capacity as an MP, and the alleged improper use of a publicly funded vehicle.

Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a controversial movement on the political fringe, describes a wide-ranging historical phenomenon, starting with Alexandre Saint-Yves d ' Alveydre and the Martinist Order followed by important individuals, organizations, movements and regimes that are alleged to have been synarchist, including the government of Nazi Germany.

Next, narrator Robert Magruder describes the progress of the investigation of the partner ( referred to as " the suspect " during the episode ), including surveillance footage of the suspect's actions with their alleged paramour ( dubbed " the companion ") recorded by the show's private investigators.

Witton describes in detail how defense counsel Major James Francis Thomas argued that the accused were being wrongly tried as accessories before the fact without the principals in the alleged crime — the troopers who shot Visser — being first found, tried and convicted, as required by common law, but the court rejected this argument.

One of them, Josephus ' allusion in The Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 94 ) to the death of James, describes James as " the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ ", provides alleged attestation independent of the early Christian community ; however several scholars have pointed out the end of the passage seems to identify this Jesus as the son of Damneus and that he was made high priest.

Gardner describes Sadler's life story as " riveting " and summarizes him as an " intelligent, gifted " person who proved to be " gullible " about alleged supernatural revelations.

It describes Stumpp ’ s life and alleged crimes and the trial, and includes many statements from neighbors and witnesses of the crimes.

Swiss author Erich von Däniken claimed to have explored some of the book's content and its alleged history, reporting unsourced rumours that the first version of the book predates Earth, and that chosen people who simply touch the book will receive visions of what it describes.

An elaborate passage describes how the Italian Gulielmis were transformed into English Wilsons " during a wave of anti-Italian feeling occasioned by alleged ice-cream poisoning in the 1890s in the Lancashire coastal resorts of Blackpool, Cleveleys, Bispham and Fleetwood ".

Young Earth creationist Joseph Mastropaolo, argues that " Change over time, ' definition one ' of evolution, actually describes devolution to extinction, the exact opposite of evolution .... actual epidemiological data from human genetic disorders and fatal birth defects, identify ' natural selection ,' the alleged ' primary mechanism ' for evolution, as actually a mechanism for devolution to extinction, the exact opposite of evolution.

It emphasises the re-establishment of local religious norms, reversing the alleged neglect of Nabonidus – a theme that Amélie Kuhrt describes as " a literary device used to underline the piety of Cyrus as opposed to the blasphemy of Nabonidus.