Mathematical Proof?
As if we needed it! But anyway, seems it's possible to mathematically "prove" the resurrection with 97% certainty!! More proof actually of why i've always hated maths!!!
Here it is in today's newspaper: (just click here to the link)
It is 97 per cent certain that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead - based on sheer logic and mathematics, not faith - according to Oxford professor Richard Swinburne.
"New Testament scholars say the only evidence is witnesses in the four gospels. That's only 5 per cent of the evidence," Professor Swinburne, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion, said last night.
"We can't judge the question of the resurrection unless we ask first whether there's reason to suppose there is a God, second if we have reason to suppose he would become incarnate and third, if he did, whether he would live the sort of life Jesus did."
Professor Swinburne, in Melbourne to give several seminars and a public lecture at the Australian Catholic University last night, said the mathematics showed a probability of 97 per cent.
This conclusion was reached after a complex series of calculations. In simplified terms, it began with a single proposition: the probability was one in two that God exists.
There's more, and the mathematically inclined amongst us can check out if the good Prof got it right.
# posted by geoff @ 4:28 pm
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