In the first 1996 issue of a known Skeptical publication now extinct, Hugh Ross provided some material on probability of prophecy fulfillment. Not being a mathematician, I am not qualified to comment on these; nor, at all, is Skeptic X, though in line with his presumption, he sees fit to comment anyway. I do not agree with all that Ross has to say on various subjects, but he is certainly eminently more qualified to make mathematical judgments than a teacher of English from a community college.

Here, at any rate, are some responses which serve well enough to take care of Skeptic X's non-mathematical objections in this article and ones that followed in issue 2 and 3, other than the usual skeptical desperation-tactic of suggesting dishonesty by the NT writers, and noting intentional fulfillments, which we would not dispute, but would suggest still require effort of varying levels:

• On typological prophecy -- for this subject we also recommended Longenecker's Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period and Pate's Communities of the Last Days. This is the main issue, as usual: Skeptic X reads the text through his own modern lenses and still cannot release himself from the hyper-fundamentalist hermeneutic he held as a preacher. This is the problem that plagues him as well in the issue 2 article, "What Third Day Prophecy?"
• On the "Bethlehem" prophecy
• Endorsement of the Jesus-myth handled here
• On Matthew, and Jeremiah vs. Zecharaiah and the interpretation issue
• On Psalm 22
• On Isaiah and the Cyrus prophecy
• On Babylon -- Skeptic X also needs a lesson in prophetic hyperbole; see here for a sample
• A Defense of the Tyre Prophecy
• On dating Deuteronomy
• On Daniel: authorship and prophetic issues