I have been tempted to respond to all the publicity about the "discovery of the tomb of Jesus," but I have not yet watched the program.  I have it recorded at home and will get to it soon.  But I would consider myself a lightweight in responding to the claims made.  I, of course, place no stock in the discovery.  I think it has to be a far-fetched, hyped-up claim.  I am not spending a lot of time worrying that this discovery will remove Christianity from the face of the earth.

But I have been reading the responses of others.  I found the response from a professor from the University of North Carolina.  My response would surely be weak; but hers is pretty strong because of her credentials.  Her web site lists these credentials:

Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has participated in more than 20 excavations in Israel and Greece, and currently directs excavations in the Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. Her publications include an award-winning book on The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans 2002) and an article entitled “Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James,” Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005).

Read her full response here

But I also read an excellent response from a totally non-scholarly source, my son.  My oldest son is still working on his teaching degree in history.  He is not a theologian by any means, but I was very impressed with his take on the issue. He emailed me asking my views, then he added:

 I think it is a bunch of hype to get people to watch a bad
documentary and an attempt to shake the religious views of Christians kind
of like when the Divinci Code came out, but I was just curious what you
thought about it all.  I read the article and it sounds to me like they were
really stretching to get the evidence they are basing their argument on.
Next question would be what if it were the actual bones of Jesus Christ what
would you think about that?  I think that even if they did find the actual
bones of Jesus Christ that his Spirit still rose on the third day and that
possibly in translation that got taken to be his whole body rose and not the
spirit.  It wouldn't change my mind about the power of God and Jesus at
all.