We've all seen the diagram pointing out 666 in the Google Chrome logo. Actually the original 2008 logo is hard to interpret as containing sixes, so I decided to focus on the 2011 logo. I was hoping I might be able to apply Bayes' theorem in assigning a probability to the claim that the Chrome logo is intentionally satanic. While there is a problem with analyzing symbology objectively, something that occurred to me recently is that the Chrome logo could easily have been flipped, in which case it wouldn't contain 666. There's a 50% chance that it would've been flipped if the 666 is unintentional, but maybe a 95% chance it would be oriented the right way if it was intentional. This gives a Bayes factor of 1.95, which can be thought of as "the odds of the satanist hypothesis relative to the null hypothesis". A Bayes factor of 2 is nothing really. What would strengthen the claim is if the creator of the 2011 redesign was a satanist. The Bayes factor for this piece of evidence would be MUCH higher since satanists are relatively rare. But who did the redesign?
>In a blog post dated March 21, 2011 (“A fresh take on an icon”), the Chrome team states that the icon redesign is the work of “Steve Rura, Designer”
Here you can see some other graphic designs by Rura:
https://dribbble.com/srura (pic related)
Notice anything interesting?
Now, we could apply the same analysis to the (bitten) Apple logo, which was designed by Rob Janoff in 1977, but I'm not sure the result is as compelling. Based on his name, he's of Polish jewish descent, so maybe he just likes the Book of Genesis (as do I).