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COINCIDENCES IN THE BIBLE AND IN BIBLICAL HEBREW
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• Linguistic analysis of tohu and bohu, the only words describing the
created Earth, indicates an allegory with desolate wilderness, where an
individual is staring amazed and startled because he or she has nothing
to observe, or because no sense can be made of what is being observed.
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Comparison with another Hebrew word for wilderness, shmamah,
reveals a similar pattern of evolving verbs that indicate amazement and
anxiety, but also boredom.
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• Modern-day usage of tohu and bohu implies chaos, complete disorder,
and lack of information . This implies growing entropy , contrary to the
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meaning imparted by the same words in Genesis, where tohu va-vohu
implies minimal entropy due to the overall uniformity (not chaos) in the
distribution of matter and energy.
• The comparison in Genesis of the created Earth with desolate wilderness
indicates that the main feature of the created universe, which the Bible
conveys to the reader, is extreme uniformity—the universe being devoid
of any structures or patterns, and in fact of any visible information (just

as in an ultimate realization of the concept of a desert).
• Modern cosmology , as well as temperature measurements of the CMB
radiation, reveal that even about 380,000 years after the big bang
(however this number is deduced), the distribution of matter (in the
form of plasma ) and energy in the universe was so uniform that the
temperature of the CMB radiation was, across space, uniform to within
less than one thousandth of a degree. More recently obtained, highly
accurate measurements, collected within the COBE project, detected

fluctuations in the CMB radiation (which indicate the existence of spa-
tial fluctuations in matter density in the early universe) that are of the

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miniscule order of 10 (one part in 100,000). These tiny fl uctuations in
the overall uniformity of the just-created universe ultimately gave rise to
spatial structures and celestial objects as we know them today.
These are all coincidences … maybe.