144:, the culmination of his research, which asserts that the Bible Code predicts the future and that events can be affected by our actions. The book also states that many famous assassinations – both past and future – were foretold in the Bible, and that the code can be interpreted with the help of a computer program. The book further claims that the code contains predictions of disasters and an
255:, completed a screenplay entitled "Code" for Warner Bros. Pictures in 1998."Written after the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, but prior to September 11, 2001, the screenplay includes a plot line recalling the 1993 Al Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers, at a time when the tragic events of
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is real but that it cannot predict the future. Some accuse him of factual errors, incorrectly claiming that he has much support in the scientific community, mistranslating Hebrew words to make his point more convincing, and using the Bible without proving that other books do not have similar codes.
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Drosnin has been criticized by some who believe that the
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538:"Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis"
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891:"Relativity Buys Film Rights to 'Bible Code' Series"
769:" Meet Michael Drosnin, Author, 'The Bible Code' "
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