To make the argument compelling, we may read the biblical scholars who have written essays regarding the variants found in the Torah scrolls. See the essays by Professor Jeffrey Tigay, Professor Menachem Cohen , Professor Sternberg and the book The Bible Code Myth, an E book by Dr. Michael Heiser. Professor Rips made an explicit reply to Professor Sternberg. Also read Rabbi Dovid Lichtman's essay which estimates that the method used by the Mesoretes to reconcile variants, produced a text that differs by no more than 12 letters from the first text of Moshe.

What is interesting about the copying error argument is that whether or not there were transmission errors in the text that we use today, it is irrelevant to the statistics. The experiments that succeed with small p-values succeed with the current text. From the results of a successful experiment one cannot statistically conclude anything other than something unusual has happened. Thus, there cannot be any statistical inference regarding the accuracy of the current text. Therefore, there is no possibility of an inference that would be inconsistent with the premise that there were transmission errors.

There is also a viewpoint that the intelligence, which transcends time, that created the Torah text, did so with an encoding that develops to be detectable after the transmission errors would occur. This viewpoint is excluded by the reasoning of the transmission error argument: that if there were transmission errors, any ELS code would be destroyed. Perhaps the opposite happens. If not, perhaps, one can understand this argument for the longer skip ELSs but not for the shorter skip ELSs. Ironically, it is the shorter skip ELSs, in the sense of low rank skips, that are hypothesized to be involved in the encoding.