Jacobovici responded by saying, "My job as a filmmaker and a journalist was to tell a story."
"You dramatize," added Koppel. "I'm not sure with most newscasts [if that would be okay]. You dramatize."
The panel then went on to talk about the "missing" James ossuary that may have been a part of the tomb and would help support the claims of the director.
Koppel summarized a statement that he had received from Amos Kloner, one of the first people to excavate the original tomb. "When he was in the tomb, he counted 10 ossuaries and he (Kloner) says the missing ossuary was, in fact, unmarked. Because of that, it was put in a courtyard at the Rockefeller Museum."
James Tabor, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, answered the proposal by saying that the dirt may have been covering the James inscription and that Kloner may have just missed it when first recording. Reed countered by asserting that there would be no way Kloner would have done that.
As a final topic for the first segment, the panelists talked about the significance of the statistics that were done and whether they really can conclude much from it.
In the second segment, three theologians were brought in to talk about the impact that the film would have on Christian faith.
"What I am is a believer," explained Father David O' Connell, President of the Catholic University of America in Washington. "It's a faith that I didn't just discover. It's a faith that was handed onto me."
When Darrell Bock, professor of New Testament Studies at the Dallas Theological Seminary, was asked what his conclusion on the film was, he expressed that he was "schizophrenic" about it, noting that the production was actually well done.
"But the frosting, the hypothesis, is a real problem because there are so many steps that are needed to connect the dots and I just don't think you can connect those dots," said the theologian.
Judy Fentress-Williams, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary, also explained how the documentary is a reflection of American culture. She described how journalism has become more and more about entertainment. Because of that, Christians need to be more critical thinkers.
"I'm delighted this (discussion) is happening," concluded Jacobovici. "As a filmmaker, I wanted everyone to weigh in."
"[My statistics say] it's 600 to 1. Let's say it's 60 to 1. Let's say it's 10 to 1. Let's say it's 50-50. This is still a great story."
