Ricky Gervais is not rational enough to be a Christian

I love Ricky Gervais. I have watched the office many times over, and regularly re-listen to his podcast. The other day I was listening to the latter, and there was a conversation between Ricky and his friend Karl that went something like this:

Karl: Don't you ever get that feeling when you walk into a place and you say 'something's a bit weird in here'?
Ricky: What do you mean?
Karl: Sometimes I go in a place and it's like 'I think someone died here' or... [some other eg.]
Ricky: Well that's bollocks. You can't possibly know that. I believe in the laws of science and rationality.
Karl: So what would it take for you to believe that it is possible.
Ricky: That's impossible. For me it's a basic assumption. I'd have to fundamentally change the way I think. It's like if you said that 2+2=5, I couldn't believe it. I'd have to change my perception of what two-ism is.

It was something like that.

This conversation reminds me of the rich man who dies (in Luke?) who was going to hell and begged to go warn his family, and he is told that there's no point. Even if they see someone raised from the dead, they won't believe.

Ricky Gervais admits that he is like that. He will irrationally cling to science and so-called 'rationality' at the expense of direct evidence! I couldn't believe my ears.

What if you saw someone walking in a furnace? What if you saw someone fly into the air? What if you saw someone die, personally buried them, sat on a chair above the grave for... 2 years, then dug up the grave and they were still alive?

I could make the hypothetical as ridiculous as I like, surely, at some point, he'd be forced to concede that scientific reproducability (that is, in a fire you get burnt, humans can't fly, and once you're dead you're dead) does not constitute the sum of human knowledge, nor natural possibility.

This is something that really saddens me about the way the world views religion. You can't say 'Jesus didn't rise from the dead' because nobody else has, or nobody ever does. It was a one-off event! If Ricky Gervais were as rational as he claims to be, he'd look into the historical evidence for the resurrection, discover that it's unreasonable not to think the resurrection happened, and become a Christian.

But alas I don't think he's rational enough to be a Christian.