Nope, the same problem applies whether or not you see "more compelling evidence of design". Your findings could still be coincidental.
Vernon: In keeping with your alliterative trio of design criteria - pattern, probability and pay-off - I shall
refer to the principles underlying this evidence as 'parallelism'. Let me explain: a gifted author, writing in a language - all of whose letters having, historically, a numerical dimension (e.g. Hebrew or
Greek) - may set out to engage in two-channel communication with his readers - the 'message proper' in one, and some meaningful sequence of numbers in the other. To convince the alert reader of the fact he may, for example, (a) invest a significant word, or sequence of words, with some apposite numerics or, (b) establish links between the numbers which undergird two or more prominent and related items of text.
Vernon: Evidence of such a demanding undertaking would suggest that the
writer's motives were serious and - if the text dealt with matters of
fundamental significance - even vitally important. In these
circumstances it would be reasonable to infer that the information in
this auxiliary channel had been provided, (a) to uniquely identify the
author of the text, (b) to provide empirical evidence of his abilities
and, (c) to substantiate textual statements which might be disbelieved,
misunderstood, or purposely manipulated to satisfy some demand of the
moment. It would be wrong to assume that the author had necessarily
'watermarked' the whole of his text or, if he had, that the reader would
be able to understand every facet of it.
Or to deny that possibility.
Vernon: Here are some instances of parallelism (as here defined) drawn from the
biblical text:
<More examples of numerology deleted>
Vernon, you still have to show that this is not coincidental or was not placed there by humans rather than the supernatural.
Vernon: There are other examples of parallelism; but these are among the most
notable. In themselves, they draw attention to a particular aspect of
divine inspiration that, in this writer's experience, is not popular
(for obvious reasons, no doubt!). By contrast, there can be little doubt
that were like coincidences to be found in a 'SETI context', they would
be hailed as positive indicators of alien life!
Strawman alert. This would only hold if they similarly had addressed the claims of coincidence and alternative interpretations.