Now that we've established that Kingfisher doesn't want to sully the sanctity of his Genesis Seal by trampling over it with the muddy boots of science, perhaps an alternative approach is called for. A sceptical version of the argument from incredulity. It goes something like this:
It seems to me that,
assuming we accept the arbitrary use of a 8x8 grid, the arbitrary use of the 1st 64 letters of Genesis, and the arbitrary spiral arrangement chosen for those letters, there is still a fatal paradox in this whole endeavour.
The more items of data found in the Seal, the more relationships between letters and words in different parts of the grid, the more meaning, the greater the variety of information it seems to refer to, and the more different rotations or other manipulations of the grid seem to present new vistas of subtle information, the
LESS plausible it all becomes.
If Kingfisher had come up with a simple code hidden in the first couple of verses of Genesis that said something simple like '
There is one God and his name is Yaweh' (or whatever), I would have said, "Wow, that's amazing - although barely plausible".
But no; going by what has been presented so far, what we are being asked to accept is that some early scholar(s) or scribe(s) assembled 'huge amounts of high-grade data', the best knowledge of the day, from approximations of pi, and root 2, to Pythagoras' Theorem, information about the creation myth, indications of what should or should not appear in the holy book, and a vast number of other scriptural and historical hints, clues, relationships, and messages, etc. [For details see Kingfisher's previous posts].
So let's picture a number of important books stacked up on a desk or desks, a huge sheaf of papers full of notes and ideas, and a committee of learned men discussing what should or should not be included, and how to achieve it.
For unknown reasons, an 8x8 grid is chosen, and this vast amount of varied information and relationships is painstakingly encoded into 64 letters on the grid - shuffling them around, reworking and repositioning them until not only does the basic grid contain a wealth of data with cunningly worked geometric and positional relationships, and each letter participating in multiple elements and relationships, but by simple manipulations of the grid, even more data and relationships are revealed. 'Twas a miracle of rare device...
Eventually, after a prolonged effort, possibly spanning several lifetimes, almost all of the 'huge amount of high-grade data' they had assembled is encoded one way or another into the 64 letters on the grid. Everyone sighs with relief and high-fives each other. They break out the wine.
Then one of the scribes notices a remarkable thing - when the letters are read in a spiral around the grid, they spell out simple and precise sentences that sound like the ideal start to the creation myth with which the great book was intended to start!! Everyone gasps, and dropping to their knees, starts praying - after all, what were the chances of that?
No? You mean they had to
deliberately make sure all that huge amount of encoded information in the grid also spelled out the beginning of Genesis in a spiral? Really? How could they possibly do that?
If someone asked you to come up with an idea for the opening of a story, then encode a 'huge amount of high-grade data' about everything under the sun as a cunning multi-level word puzzle using 64 letters on an 8x8 grid,
making sure that when it was all finished, those 64 letters, read in a spiral, spelt out the opening lines of the story, would you think they were sane or insane?
So, my sceptical argument from incredulity is simply that it is inconceivable that anyone could deliberately encode that much information in such a small number of letters, in such a way that all the grid relationships Kingfisher claims are present, and
still have it read as the opening to Genesis. No way. Spectacularly impossible. Mega-fail
