Theomatics

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Theomatics is a numerological study of the Greek and Hebrew text of the Christian Bible, based upon gematria and isopsephia, that its proponents assert demonstrates the direct intervention of God in the writing of Christian scripture.

Etymology

The term "theomatics" was invented by Del Washburn in 1976, who coined the name "theomatics" as a combination of "Θεός" ("God") and "mathematics", and wrote several books^[1] and created a website^[2] espousing the hypothesis.

Methodology

Theomatics is not the same thing as Bible code; it uses an entirely different technique. The Bible code (also called ELS for Equidistant Letter Sequences) uses a letter skipping technique. Theomatics, on the other hand, is based on gematria and isopsephia, systems which assign numerical values to letters in the ancient Hebrew and Greek alphabets.

Proponents of theomatics claim that an analysis of the Bible reveals numerical patterns that are not explicable by chance.

Controversy

An analysis and criticism of theomatics has been published anonymously by "A. B. Leever"^[3].

A German statistician published an analysis^[4] that found that "The observed quantity of theomatic hits is significantly not random".^[5] His findings led Del Washburn to write that theomatics is "an issue that has been settled and is both determinate and conclusive".^[6] A response to the findings was posted by A. B. Leever.^[7]

Another page, entitled "Theomatics Debunked"^[8], criticizes theomatics from an atheist perspective.

Washburn's website has a page entitled "Scientific Proof"^[9] which discusses and responds to potential arguments against theomatics.

References

1. ^ The three books are:

Jerry Lucas and Del Washburn (1986). Theomatics: God's Best Kept Secret Revealed. Stein & Day Pub. ISBN 0-8128-6017-9.
Del Washburn (1994). Theomatics II : God's Best-Kept Secret Revealed. Scarborough House. ISBN 0-8128-4023-2.
Del Washburn (1994). The Original CODE in the BIBLE. Madison Books. ISBN 1-56833-115-0.

They have sold approximately 100,000 copies in hard cover editions.
2. ^ Del Washburn. What is Theomatics?. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
3. ^ A. B. Leever. Theomatics. Retrieved on October 10, 2005.
4. ^ Kurt Fettelschoss. Table of Contents. Theomatics. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
5. ^ Kurt Fettelschoss. Cover letter. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
6. ^ Del Washburn. Statement regarding Fettelschoss' analysis. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
7. ^ A. B. Leever. Response to Fettelschoss. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
8. ^ Russell Glasser. Theomatics Debunked. Retrieved on October 10, 2005.
9. ^ Del Washburn. Scientific Proof of the Discovery. Retrieved on 2005-10-10.

Origin

The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Principia Discordia
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pareidolia (pronounced /pɛɹaɪˈdoliə/ or /pæɹaɪˈdəʊliə/), referenced in 1994 by Steven Goldstein,^[1]
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Psychorama (or "The Precon Process") is the act of communicating subliminal information through film—flashing images on the screen so quickly that they cannot be perceived by the conscious mind, but nonetheless leaving an unconscious imprint on the viewer.
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Sacred geometry can be described as a belief system attributing a religious or cultural value to many of the fundamental forms of space and time. According to this belief system, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred because in contemplating them one is
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Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.
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Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".
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clustering illusion is the natural human tendency to "see patterns where actually none exist." Since, according to a branch of mathematics known as Ramsey Theory, complete mathematical disorder in any physical system is an impossibility, it may be more correct to state, however,
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observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a cognitive bias found in science that occurs when a researcher expects a given result and therefore unconsciously manipulates an experiment
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Pattern recognition is a sub-topic of machine learning. It can be defined as

"the act of taking in raw data and taking an action based on the category of the data".

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unconscious refers to that part of mental functioning of which subjects make themselves unaware ^[28].

Freud proposed a vertical and hierarchical architecture of human consciousness: the conscious mind, the preconscious, and the unconscious mind - each lying
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Gematria (Heb. גימטריה, from the Greek γεωμετρία) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive meaning or relative relationship.
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Isopsephy (iso meaning "equal" and psephos meaning "pebble") is the Greek word for the practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number. The early Greeks used pebbles arranged in patterns to learn arithmetic and geometry.
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