There's a code in the bible that predicts every major event in world histroy from Jesus to 9/11 and everything in between, or so says Michael Drosnin in The Bible Code.

The book has been around for years, it was even a New York Times bestseller, but I only heard about when my friend Josh handed it me yesterday. It's a quick read, full of charts that explain the code and not particularly well-written. It's interesting, but only if you're the type to laugh at end-of-the-world doomsayers and sky is falling paranoids.

Drosnin posits that existence of the code is the proof of some non-human super-intelligent being (aka God), but his assumptions are specious at best. Even the Israeli mathematician, Eliyahu Rips, who discovered the code, and whom Drosnin claims he worked very closely in producing the conclusions he divulges in the book, denies they ever worked together. Rips has said, "I do not support the book as it is or the conclusions it derives."

One of Drosnin's major thesis is that the assasination of Rabin signaled the beginning of the "End of Days" as discussed in the book of Daniel and Relavation.

What do you think? Do you think that the end of the world is upon us and it was all revealed beforehand in code buried deep in the deep that could only be extracted with the aid of powerful computer programs?

I'm skeptical.