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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Mocking the Good Book

Given a million monkeys, typing for a million years, you'll eventually produce the Bible.

The enterprising gents publishing the The Markov Bible have such many monkeys in their employ; and at a click, those monkeys will immediately produce an attempt at a book of the Bible from both the Old and New Testaments.

The whole operation is really quite astounding; the warehouse housing all those monkeys must be gigantic. And the noise! The clacking of those typewriters surely deafens. But applause to its creators, the Markov Bible will be the version of choice for my Sunday School class.

This excerpt from a reproduction of Genesis shook me so:

And the flesh instead of the men that he said, Drink, my sons of Bethel, and the flock, and thou wilt thou shalt bear upon Jacob said unto Abraham, and he Seas: and pursued after their victuals, and in the stone was good and daughters. And Rebekah to rule the smell of Abraham in the morning were eight hundred and Amraphel king of the earth, and there at the Philistines had said unto the angel with thee; for nought? tell thee a son, God Almighty bless me.

Truly remarkable.

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