In a lengthy conversation with fellow podcaster Cody Tucker, Joe Rogan said it’s incongruent for people to contend that Jesus’ resurrection was impossible yet believe that nothingness “instantaneously became everything” via the Big Bang.
Rogan and Tucker, author of “And Now You Know: Mind-Blowing Stories from History and Pop Culture,” spoke for almost three hours on the May 7 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The pair touched on topics including the beginning of the universe, resurrection, and the veracity of biblical accounts like Noah’s Ark and David and Goliath.
Rogan, a Catholic-turned-agnostic, has been exploring faith concepts and speaking to Christians. At one point during his conversation with Tucker, he said, “Jesus makes more sense” than some stories scientists offer about the origin of the universe. “I’m sticking with Jesus on that one,” said Rogan.
That stance prompted social media posts, with conservative news personality Collin Rugg writing, “Joe Rogan says the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more believable than the logic behind the Big Bang theory.”
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Joe Rogan Calls Out Inconsistent Stances
As Cody Tucker and Joe Rogan talked about the unknowns of space and whether the universe is infinite, Tucker asked, “But then who made all that? Is there a God? Did God make this?…Then who made God?” Rogan added, “Or is God the universe?”
Rogan continued, “Wouldn’t it be crazier if there wasn’t something at one point in time? That seems even crazier…It couldn’t be nothing and then all of a sudden everything.”
Tucker added, “Because what started that? What kicked that off exactly? What snapped its fingers?”
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As he has previously, Rogan mentioned a quote from ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna. “The difference between science and religion,” Rogan paraphrased, “is that science only asks you for one miracle. I want you to believe in one miracle, the Big Bang.”
