The so-called Bible code has been used to show that world events can be predicted. Michael Drosnin's book published in 1998 purports that the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament can find patterns that show names, places and events that have yet to occur.
One website claims the devastating Joplin tornado May 22 was predicted in Biblical texts. Bible-Codes.org states they ran a series of codes in their computer and came up with the words "terrible tornadoes" bracketed by a week that ended with May 22.
Another website took the matrix of Bible texts one step further. Words such as "the pillar of cloud by day" intersected the term "Joplin" near the phrases "in the tornado" and "surely be put to death." ArkCode.com explains the statistical improbabilities of these terms showing up near each other as astronomical.
Although hardly a scientific explanation, using a supposed code to find out future events has been a relatively new phenomenon. Computers use complex mathematical formulas called algorithms to crunch numbers and recognize patterns not readily seen by humans.
The Bible code supposedly has predicted the September 11 terrorist attacks, presidential elections and world cataclysms. Might some divine influence had a hand in warning residents of the Midwest of some major tornado?
Even more than three months afterward, residents and volunteers are still looking for answers. People survived or perished due to split-second decisions. The Springfield News-Leader reported Rusty Howard took his two young children to seek shelter in Home Depot where they died just as the tornado hit. Just minutes before the tornado hit, Howard was having dinner at McAlister's with his wife Edie. The restaurant survived completely intact despite being just a block away from the hardware store. The mother survived as she was in a separate vehicle from her husband.
The New York Daily News reported Will Norton, who graduated from Joplin High School 45 minutes before the tornado hit, was driving a Hummer down Range Line Road. He was pulled out of the vehicle's sun roof even though he was wearing a seat belt in one of the sturdiest vehicles ever made. Had he driven the truck a little further down the road, he might have survived.
There are hundreds of such stories about how instant decisions either caused someone to survive or perish in the massive tornado. For families who lost loved ones, answers as to why those events happened may never come.
Despite spiritual or even sometimes weird answers such as a Bible code, no one may truly know why the Joplin tornado killed 160 people and devastated 30 percent of the town. The only answers that matter are those found within each of the people who survived that fateful day in late May.
William Browning, a lifelong Missouri resident, writes about local and state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Born in St. Louis, Browning earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri. He currently resides in Branson.
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