Just because people have been able to show that there may be other codes in other books of the world doesn't mean that they have proven the Bible Code as being false.
They haven't proven their case because they haven't been able to explain the fact that events have happened exactly when the Bible Code has said that they would.
The critics like to spend so much time on the "chance" factor, that they often fail to realize whats right in front of their eyes. Instead of Michael Drosnin saying "When my critics find the same in Moby Dick then maybe I'll believe them", he should have said "When my critics find the same events in the Bible with different dates,times, people, and places next to them, then maybe I'll believe them."
The exact date of the gulf war was found in the Bible Code, but has the same event been found next to a different date? No it hasn't. It has only been found next to the date of which it actually occured on. Has it been found next to anyone elses name except Saddams? No it hasn't, and I doubt it ever will be. Now when you take all that into consideration, it all seems pritty special if you ask me. No other events have been found with two different dates, names, and places either, so as of now I am very confident that the Bible Code is true.
The critics main problem is their own intentions, because they allow them all to cloud their minds. They haven't raised any valid arguement in my opinion, because they're not telling the entire truth about everything that they're doing.
They are trying to use math and science to prove the code as wrong, but they fail to take into consideration that the code itself might just be BIGGER than either math OR science.
Another thing that ****es me off is that many of the Bible Code's critics don't seem to even want to consider the fact that all of our little "theories" and mathmatical explanations might be laughable at best to those who might also inhabit certain parts of the Universe.
Whos to say that our current explanations and mathmatics system is only but a tiny portion of the larger scheme of things to come? We humans like to get ourselves into trouble because we sometimes try and pretend as if we already have everything figured out.
I don't think we take the time to realize that many times in the past we have made this same exact mistake, only to find out later that we all have so much more to learn.
All i'm saying is that before you try and prove something as being wrong, always take into consideration that the very thing you're using as your arguement might only be in it's baby stages (if anything), and that we might not know enough about what we're talking about to be able to prove it one way or the other. =)