Science Only Asks for One Miracle

“Jesus makes more sense,” Joe Rogan quipped on his recent podcast that has piqued attention from religious news platforms. The conversation with fellow podcaster, Cody Tucker, turned from conspiracy theories to metaphysics. “Where did it all come from?” became the center of attention on the Rogan show, albeit for a short time. What’s all the hype about?

For full disclosure, this is only the second time I’ve watched the Rogan show – and the first time was for the same reason. I wanted to see what everyone in the Christian bubble in which I live happened to be talking about. Second, I wouldn’t encourage readers to go watch the show unless they have a *healthy* tolerance for profanity. It would be rated R if it were a movie. Yet, on shows like this, where a couple people talk for a long period of time about a range of topics, God is bound to pop up. And thus he did.

In discussing the difficulty of comprehending how a universe could come from nothing, Rogan references Jesus in terms of concepts that seem more plausible. “There’s an environment before the Big Bang . . . it’s all theoretical of course . . . space is the ultimate who the **** knows . . . there couldn’t be nothing and then all of sudden there be something . . . People will be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus but yet they’re convinced the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pin . . . and it instantaneously became everything . . . I’m sticking with Jesus . . . Jesus makes more sense.”

Rogan goes on to share the quote about the difference between religion and science is that science only asks you to accept one miracle (the Big Bang). Rogan makes it clear he finds a religious argument (assumedly a Christian one) regarding the origin of the universe to be more plausible. I wish he unpacked that a bit, I’d be curious to hear the reasons why. Yet this only occupies a small part of a longer conversation that mostly dealt with other matters.

I would press back on the quote about science, though. I would add to the miracle of the Big Bang a list as varied as the sum total of the human experience. Not only does religion offer a compelling though conflicting explanation of the backstory of the Cosmos, it provides a more beautiful framework for understanding what it means to be human. While science would reduce things like love, friendship, truth, and justice to evolutionary instincts and chemical brain states, the Christian view of the world embraces them as real and meaningful.

Will Christians benefit from rushing to the Rogan show for spiritual inspiration. Um, no. But I will say this, I hope Joe keeps following this line of reasoning. It leads somewhere. It leads to someone.