Christianity is rooted essentially on the claim that Jesus lived, died, was buried, and rose on the third day. So, is there a way we can test and see if there are other hypotheses that better explain this? Is it knowable? There certainly is an element of trust, right? I'm not saying it's reduced down to just certain things that we know, but it's not just trusting blindly without reason.

Obviously, we're intelligent; we fear death, and then we're drawn towards the systems that help us cope with our own mortality. Now, I look at that data as a Christian, and I think that coming up with these explanations to face fear of death is one way to make sense of that data. Another way could be is that there is a God, and he made us to be in relationship with him—made us smart, made us aware of our own finitude.