Harum-Scarum: Decoding the Bible Code A review of Michael
Drosnin’s The Bible Code. In 1859 John Taylor published a book
entitled The Great Pyramid, in which he discovered that if you
divide the height of the pyramid into twice the side of its
base, you get a number close to Π. This, and other relationships
he found to be deeply meaningful. Soon after, others began to
turn up similar “discoveries”, such as that the base of the
Great Pyramid divided by the width of a casing stone equals the
number of days in the year, and that the height of the Great
Pyramid multiplied by 109 approximately equals the distance from
the Earth to the Sun. Humans are pattern-seeking animals. At
Skeptic magazine we routinely receive calls from people who see
the Virgin Mary in the shadows of a tree, the face of Jesus in a
partially burnt tortilla, Mother Teresa in a sweet roll, or a
face on Mars. JFK lives in stone profile in Hawaii. Eagle Rock
sports a giant winged boulder overlooking the city. Patterns are
everywhere. But which p