Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoThis conclusion, while weakly supported by a statistical analysis of the names involved, is rejected by most archaeologists, theologians, linguistic and biblical scholars.
There’s a bunch of references for archaeologists debunking it.
I know you said “it might not be him” but I feel like that understates the weight of evidence against that possibility.
dudinax@programming.dev 2 months ago
The respectable probability estimates range from astronomically unlikely to merely unlikely. In other words, we don’t have incontrovertible ways of calculating the probability.
While it’s not great or convincing evidence, it’s the only physical evidence I know about.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
We might not be able to calculate the probability but we can conclude that the chances that this tomb is that of Jesus is infinitesimal.
dudinax@programming.dev 2 months ago
If you can’t calculate the probability, then you can’t rationally reach the conclusion that the probability is very low.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Of course you can.
I’m unable to calculate the probability that the moon will fall out of the sky tonight but I know that the probability is very low.