Wrong.
They claimed that Jesus had arrived five years earlier and that was wrong. In other words they couldn't even get a "prediction" about something that had supposedly happened before they made the claim correct.
Great. I suppose you have the same attitude toward your pay packet? The sports team you support? Any airline flights you take?
"Well yeah, my pay's always wrong, my team always loses and I never arrive where I want to go: but they got it right THE FIRST TIME so I'll stick with them".
Can't you see how utterly stupid that is?
Gah, I always mistake your for you're
And I don't see why taking out the comma is necessary? My English teacher has always told me that you can put a comma before "and", or "or". You can also choose not to. Both are correct.
Using your darts analogy:
If you hit the bullseye while blindfolded the first time, you wouldn't know you hit it, would you? So you keep trying to hit it. Now after your done, someone tells you that you got it on your first try, and you didn't even need to throw the others. Does it matter that the others you threw missed? No. All that matter is that you got the bullseye. And for you to get it on your first try is really good!
That illustration is invalid, because the point isn't that they got it right the first time, the point is they got it right against considerable odds, which proves the fact that they weren't guessing and actually were using the Bible to predict that. The fact that it was the first time was only to prove the fact that they weren't shotgunning.
Also, you or spidergoat said that there is plenty of ways to mess with numbers in the Bible. You show me a reasonable way you can mess with numbers to, say, prove 2012 is the end of times. You do that for me, kay?
Friday is getting closer. This is kinda unfair because of the current nuclear crisis in japan, the odds of something big happening on Friday is up quite a bit than it was last Friday...