Yes, actually the number miracle seems to be one of the most popular ones at the moment, so cheetah add that one on too.
Christians have done the same with the Bible, Jews with the Talmud, along with Dan Brown fans with the Da Vinci Code too. They all point to one thing in my opinion, and I will try to explain it with the help of some analogies.
Attempts to find cryptograms in Shakespeare's works, which tended to report results only for those passages of Shakespeare for which the theory produced a positive result. This could be explained as an example of the fallacy because passages which do not match the theory have not been accounted for. The fallacy could also be an explanation for cryptograms in the Bible.
You may be familiar with the Hong Kong telephone directory or the Texas sharpshooter analogy (about a cowboy that fire a round of bullets at a barn door, then draws the target around the bullets to show how good he is with the gun). They are fallacies related to the clustering illusion fallacy which refers to the tendency in human cognition to interpret patterns in randomness where none actually exist.
Michael Drosnin once made a challenge with this statement:
"When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." (Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)
After reading the evidence in this thread
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html we might come to the conclusion that Moby Dick really predicted the assassinations of famous prime ministers.
The numerological miracle of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry
The following example is an expansion of one first presented on USENET
For this example, we will use numerical values for English letters assigned using the same pattern as used for Arabic, Greek and Hebrew.
A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9
J=10 K=20 L=30 M=40 N=50 O=60 P=70 Q=80 R=90
S=100 T=200 U=300 V=400 W=500 X=600 Y=700 Z=800
We will analyse the famous first line of Poe's classic poem "The Raven":
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
* There are 7x7 letters.
* The first and last words sum to 202x7, of which the first letters contribute 80x7.
* The consonants in words starting with a consonant sum to 537x7.
* The consonants in words ending with a consonant sum to 485x7, of which 192x7 comes from the odd length words and 293x7 from the even length words.
* The consonants in words 2,4,6,8,10 sum to 177x7.
* There are 7 words ending with consonants.
* There are 3x7 consonants in words of even length.
* Considering words 1,3,5,7,9,11:
* There are 3x7 letters.
* The even (2,4,6..) letters in each word total 138x7.
* The last letters of each word total 205x7.
* The first and last letters of each word total 51x7x7.
* Considering the verb "pondered":
* The first letter has value 10x7.
* The vowels have total value 10x7.
Topic: Scientific Miracles in the Qur'an?