Yaakov corrrectly states that:
>the researchers showed how the removal of only a few letters drastically
>reduced the significance of their results
I have shown based on the Talmud that:
> "vav DeGichon" (VaYikra 10:42) which is supposed to be
>the middle of the Torah in letters, and is off by about 5000 letters
Yaakov concludes:
>Whatever the minor letter differences might be, the data, the Torah we have
>today, cannot be described as "flawed." Despite full awareness of the
>Talmudic statement that we cannot be certain about the presence of certain
>vav and yud characters in the text
A difference of about 5000 letters IS NOT "minor letter diferences", and the
only logical conclusion is the one proposed originally.
Gilad J. Gevaryahu