It's the presuppositions, man!

It's one thing to suggest that all Truth begins with Christ. It's quite another to subject history to the calculator. Apparently, an Oxford intellectual thinks he can reduce the resurrection to an equation: Apologia puts faith in lap of the odds - National - smh.com.au.
Richard Swinburne told a crowd at the Australian Catholic University that "probability calculus" could increase the certainty of Christ's resurrection to 97%. Does this mean our faith must "bridge" the remaining 3%?

Leave it to an agnostic to wax Van Tillian. Colin Sutherland isn't ready to commit to Swinburne's claims saying, ""The conclusions you reach in this kind of discussion often simply reflect the assumptions that you put in at the beginning." Of course, Van Til would go a step further. Not only do the presuppositions determine the outcomes, there is only one certainty: Christianity is true and all other philosophies, or "worldviews", are false. In an essay in which Van Til posits Christ himself as THE self-attesting presupposition, Van Til says: "The Christian, as did Tertullian, must contest the very principles of his opponent's position. The only 'proof' of the Christian position is that unless its truth is presupposed there is no possibility of "proving" anything at all. " Why? Because, "the Christian offers the self-attesting Christ to the world as the only foundation upon which a man must stand in order to give any "reasons" for anything at all." -- Cornelius Van Til, "Jerusalem and Athens", "My Credo"

For Van Til and us, 97% may prove certainty in fallen man's world, but without 100% certainty it ultimately proves nothing. Even then, if it does not begin and end with Christ, the equation that "proves" 100% certainty is meaningless.