On a recent episode of Joe Rogan Experience with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Joe Rogan made the case that modern human beings are not simply the product of standard evolutionary processes.
The conversation turned when Chopra Jonas asked how humans went from early man to a technology-driven, highly intelligent species so quickly. Rogan’s answer was direct: “I would say something helped us.”
He pointed to the rate of change in the human brain as evidence that conventional explanations fall short. “The human brain size doubled over a period of 2 million years, which is the greatest mystery in the entire fossil record,” he said. “But in religious texts, ancient religious texts, there’s many stories of human beings breeding with something from somewhere else.”
Rogan brought up the Book of Enoch as one of the oldest written accounts supporting that idea. “The watchers came down from the sky to mate with humans and created the Nephilim, a race of giants that destroyed the earth,” he said. “This is in the Bible and it would have been in the Bible if not for a few rabbis that decided this doesn’t jive with the Torah.”
To illustrate the primate side of the argument, Rogan described what documentary footage had captured about chimpanzee behavior. “Chimps are ultra violent,” he said, adding that a researcher had told him monkeys were among the animals’ preferred food.
“We saw them k*ll so many monkeys, we couldn’t even document it,” Rogan relayed. “They would tear these monkeys apart and eat them alive.”
From there, he connected both threads directly. “We’re a combination of some higher intelligence that interbred with a savage primate that’s curious and created this weird hybrid, this weird thing,” he said.
His reasoning extended to how an advanced species would logically behave upon encountering early humans. “I would not rule out intervention,” he said, “and I wouldn’t think that an intelligent species from somewhere else, if they did find these very curious primates that may already be working with sticks and rocks and stuff like that, that they wouldn’t intervene, because we do it. We’re doing it right now.”
