… so to speak. Check out Randy Ingermanson’s revised statistical analysis of the names in the Talpiot tomb:
Bayes’ Theorem and the “Jesus Family Tomb”
He was even nice enough to provide a downloadable spreadsheet so you can plug in your own variables and come up with a custom-made probability that they’ve found the bones of Jesus. (Hint: If you have any intellectual integrity at all, it will be rather less than 1 in 1000.)
Of course, this says nothing about whether Jesus arose from the dead: it only speaks to the probability that, if he did not rise, his remains have been found at Talpiot. The resurrection is still a faith assertion—although I believe it is one that is rational to make.
