I had a long discussion with a mathematician at Arizona State University in the 1980’s whose belief in Jesus was based on the “fact” that the mathematical odds of all the prophecies concerning Jesus in the Old Testament being fulfilled in the New Testament were “too astronomical to be pure chance”, and cited the practical analogy of covering Texas a foot deep in silver dollars and then finding a single marked silver dollar at random on the first try.

I did not bother trying to explain to him that this already entails accepting every word of the NT as true and incorruptible and not “tweaked” to fit the prophecies, because he was already convinced…

In any case, if you insist on a completely literal interpretation of the Bible, then you have to reject science and even logic.

Just keep that crap out of public schools and I am cool with that.