Repeated "wins" in the Torah

Many of the examples on this site have conservatively calculated odds of 1 in 1,000, or 1 in 10,000, or much more significant. Odds of 1 in 1,000 means that one would have to search through about a thousand texts in order to find one with as impressive an ELS table as that found in the Torah. If this happened only once, that would not be so interesting. It would be like winning a lottery in a small town.

But in fact we see this kind of "win" in the Torah repeatedly. It is comparable to the Torah "playing the lottery" daily for a year and winning 50 times. (By the way, sometimes people focus on and question why there are 315 losses - forgetting how extraordinary the 50 wins are).

50 wins for one player does not happen unless there is some kind of error, the game is rigged, or there is something miraculous going on. It is often much easier to believe anything except a miracle.

That is why, in all of the research, there is so much emphasis placed on strict rules that limit what is searched and how it is measured. In this way one can count or closely estimate the total number of possible outcomes, and thereby have confidence that one is getting a true measure of the phenomenon.

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