Jesus tomb and Bayes rule
"As for other lessons learned, when you talk with a journalist, don't explain things that *he* would understand it, explain it so that *everyone* would understand, because you're going to be quoted and you don't want to sound as eggheaded as I have. Also, try to keep the answer within a sentence or two. In the past I've had the chance to edit the final version, but you can't count on it."
The Lost Tomb of Jesus?
Odds of 'Lost Tomb' Being Jesus' Family Rest on Assumptions
Has James Cameron Found Jesus's Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error?
Clearing the Air on Statistics…please!
Andrey Feuerverger
"I have been overwhelmed by requests for information about a certain calculation that I have done which is being reported widely in the media. I am putting together some comments concerning this matter addressed to statistical colleagues. It will be posted on this page and should be available within about 24 hours."
Jesus' Descendants
Probability theory tells us, however, that if Jesus had any children, his biological line would almost certainly have either died out after relatively few generations, or else would have grown exponentially so that many millions of people alive today would be direct descendants of Jesus...
The research behind these conclusions, growing out of a subdiscipline of probability theory known as branching theory, is part of the work of Joseph Chang, a Yale statistician, and Steve Olson, author of "Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins."
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The Existential Jesus
Sociologist John Carroll on his new book about Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
The Lost Treasure of Solomon's Temple
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