. . . Gothamist was made aware of a press release from a group claiming to be biblical scholars. The group predicts, with 98% confidence, that the “UN Plasa in Midtown Manhattan will be hit by a terrorist nuclear bomb between Thursday evening June 29th and Tuesday evening July 4th”. The Poconos are looking really good for a weekend getaway. Oh, wait, a few weeks ago these so-called scholars were 85% certain annihilation was going to occur on June 9th and 10th, and this turns out to be their fourth attempt. Gothamist is impressed by their perserverence but not by their tenuous connection to reality.
See full text here, via Gothamist. Here’s hoping they’re not a volatile bunch, these alleged biblical scholars; wouldn’t want them to take out their frustrations with their poor predictive track record and turning them into affirmative action.
More from the “scholars” themselves, who seem to wish to channel Isaac Newton as part of their investigations, here.
July 5, 2006 at 2:33 pm
[...] British doomsday mathematician Gordon Ritchie and his cohorts at http://www.truebiblecode.com have apparently failed again to predict accurately a terrorist nuclear attack on the UN Plaza in Manhattan. They had previously predicted that such an attack would occur between the evening of June 29th and sundown on July 4th, but now sheepishly state: We can only apologise once more. We are not able to get what we interpret to be a Nuclear Terrorist attack on the UN in Midtown Manhattan accurate to the day. We can only now say that it will happen in the sabbath month of 2006Tammuz i.e. before sundown Friday July 28th. We get this month from the pregnancy period of 1 Thessalonians 5:3, and from the 2nd head of the image of the UN Beast (which image is the UN Peace Building Commission) and from the 7th festival after our first mistaken date as stipulated by Elijah is 1 Kings 18 (which festival is a month long sabbath). That gives 3 witnesses to the month, but none of our witnesses to the day were correct. Our confidence in them was misplaced as it did not take into account the various mistakes we have made along the way. [...]