How are these Principles Applied to Demonstrate the Codes' Reality

We just hinted at the two tasks needed to demonstrate that the codes in the Torah are real:

(1) Take an un-biased survey of all possible codes (because it is impractical to cover 100% of all cases, even with all of the world's supercomputers).

(2) Define "code" - that is, what are the a-priori rules that indicate that two ELS's are in fact "related" (i.e. they have a "meaningful connection").

By ensuring all aspects are a-priori, we avoid the drastic error of taking a much broader survey than intended (it is a scenario 1 vs scenario 2 issue).

If we have only 1 small survey, we can not be so confident in the result. But if there are several independent researchers, and among them several surveys with highly significant results, we can be confident that the full set of all possible ELS's in the text would also show an extraordinarily high success rate, and that therefore the codes are real.

In all of the research, taking a survey is in fact the overriding method used; and the details of experimental design focus precisely on eliminating bias and on clearly defining in advance which words are related to each other. Many of the code categories are able to do this with minimal or no subjectivity - especially the lexicon-based pattern experiments.

Where there are any subjective aspects at all, the critics may never be satisfied. But interested observers can gather enough information to make reasonable judgements and reach their own conclusions.

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