Testing Event Clustering in a Biblical Timeline Version 2: Formal Sensor Construction and Preregistered Validation

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Authors: McCain, Wiley
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Abstract

Program Status Update — June 14, 2026: Program Suspended The Ruach–Pneuma Continuum research program has been suspended. Taken as a whole, the evidence is inconclusive. The headline first-century clustering result reported here rests on a uniform-in-time null that the program's own review flags as unrealistic; it was never tested against a text-volume-matched null. Later cross-channel tests did not confirm the predicted structure, and the program produced no confound-clean confirmatory result. This record is retained as a public archive of preregistered tests reported honestly, including those that failed. The author may revisit the analysis; no active work is planned in the interim. AI-assisted development disclosure (program-wide): Generative AI tools (Claude by Anthropic; ChatGPT by OpenAI; Gemini by Google; Grok by xAI) were used throughout this program as collaborative aids, contributing to statistical methodology discussion, code drafting, preregistration language, and manuscript text. All research questions, theological framing, preregistrations, interpretive decisions, and go/no-go judgments were author-owned. All code was reviewed, tested, and executed by the author. Negative and self-corrected results are retained and reported transparently. The author accepts full responsibility for the final content.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction Language and cultural evolution Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint