Evolution on the Joe Rogan Experience

5 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Apr 2024 to Jan 2025 · updated Jul 18, 2026

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  1. I question carbon dating. Yeah.

    Gibson states he questions the validity of carbon dating as a scientific method, in response to being asked about 11,000-year-old carbon-dated structures like Gobekli Tepe.

  2. If we are 98.7% identical to simians, right, and there's only 1.3% differentiation, who's more evolved? But you look at the simians, they have 48 chromosomes, …

    Howard claims humans are 98.7% genetically identical to simians and asks how humans lost two chromosomes relative to apes, implying this is an unexplained mystery.

  3. But it was like they they looked at it and they did some core samples on it, and it was put out there by people advocating evolution, and they discovered that …

    Gibson claims the Zinjanthropus fossil was a hoax fabricated by evolution advocates, combining a human skull with an ape jaw.

  4. I think most biologists will agree that the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record is the doubling of the human brain size over a period of 2 million year…

    Rogan claims most biologists consider the doubling of human brain size over 2 million years the biggest unsolved mystery in the fossil record.

  5. there's no chain in the fossil record of that at all. And that's why you don't actually hear people. You hear them make reference to evolution, because the the…

    Carlson asserts there is no transitional fossil record supporting common-descent evolution and that Darwin's theory remains 'just a theory' and unproven nearly 200 years later.