What podcasts say about Tom McClellan
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What Tom McClellan has said on podcasts
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Creatine may modestly improve brain function.
“There is some research that is suggesting creatine might be a little more helpful for brain function”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 7:11
Avoiding high-FODMAP foods improved Tom’s digestive comfort.
“when I was avoiding things that are high in FODMAPs, I was just, I felt better.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 10:54
Altitude-restrictive training masks are probably less effective than hypoxia training.
“It's probably not as effective.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 15:02
Most scholars interpret the artifact as depicting Israel’s God and Asherah.
“I think the majority of scholars agree this is probably intended to reflect the interpretation of these two deities as the God of Israel and God's wife, Asherah.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 16:51
Several Pauline texts were not authored by Paul.
“scholars are in pretty widespread agreement that there are several of those texts that weren't written by Paul.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 30:31
The Pastoral Epistles were written decades after Paul’s death.
“1 and 2 Timothy and Titus are called the pastoral epistles, and they are widely agreed to have been written toward the end of the 1st century or beginning of the 2nd century, maybe 30 years after Paul was dead or more.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 30:39
Genesis was probably composed between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE.
“Genesis was probably written between around the 8th century BCE down to the 5th century BCE.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 39:43
Genesis traditions were mainly adapted from Babylonian material dating eighth to sixth century BCE.
“the closest connections are 8th to 6th century BCE. That's probably where the traditions that were recorded in Genesis were mainly borrowed.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 43:00
Ancient aliens are not a plausible explanation for the emergence of hieroglyphs.
“The ancient alien stuff is fun, but we don't have a lot of evidence that gets us to that being really even a plausible solution to the problem.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 45:01
Writing likely developed from accounting and administrative records.
“the writing seems to develop from receipts or from counting.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 45:37
Nearly every alphabet except Hangul descends from Phoenician.
“apart from Hangul, which is the Korean script, I think virtually every other alphabet on earth is descended from the Phoenician.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 47:32
Simple Hebrew-English tools omit substantial translation complexity.
“there is a lot more under the hood of that relationship between the Hebrew and the English translation that they don't have any idea about.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 53:13
- on amateur biblical-language interpretationNegativeOct 7, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Amateur biblical-language interpreters often spread misinformation online.
“they end up stepping in it because they really don't know what they're talking about. Or the main reason I'm on social media and the main thing I'm trying to combat, they will spread misinformation.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 53:40
Ugarit was destroyed before Hebrew developed.
“The destruction of Ugarit happens before the invention of Hebrew.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 59:12
Ancient dragon deities personified watery chaos.
“the chaos of the waters became... kind of personified as a deity who could be represented as a dragon”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:02:34
Supernatural monitoring beliefs can support larger, more complex societies.
“it also allows societies to grow and get larger and more complex without descending into chaos because we have kind of this social superstructure.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:06:06
Dehumanizing opponents makes mistreatment and imprisonment easier to justify.
“the more you can dehumanize them and other them and make it seem like they are just so alien and so corrupt, the more you can do that, the easier it is to justify. Yeah. Not just treating them bad, not just voting for the other guy, but even imprisoning them.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:09:32
Shanidar 1’s survival indicates Neanderthals provided social support to disabled individuals.
“the skull aged to... Pretty old age for a Neanderthal, which indicates that that was only possible if they had a social support group around them”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:11:41
Shanidar 1 suggests Neanderthal society cared for vulnerable members.
“I think it shows that this was someone who grew up in a society that was like, we'll take care of you.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:13:00
Genesis 3 functions as an etiological explanation for present conditions.
“when you look at the Adam and Eve story, and particularly the curses in Genesis 3, it's like, oh, this is why childbirth is painful. This is why men have to work hard to make plants grow. Oh, this is why we hate snakes. And this is why snakes oddly don't have legs.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:17:15
Modern New Testament translations omit over a dozen King James verses.
“Most modern translations of the New Testament have taken out more than a dozen verses that are in the King James Version.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:24:58
Mark 16:9–20 was added after the original Gospel of Mark.
“scholars agree that's not original. That was something that was added.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:28:06
Destruction by fire has preserved some of archaeology’s best discoveries.
“some of our best discoveries have been because somebody burnt a building down and it happened to be an archive”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:31:12
Cannabis residue shows ancient Israelites used cannabis in worship.
“one of them had three different kinds of cannabis on it. So we know for a fact they were using cannabis in their worship practices in ancient Israel.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:38:38
- on John Marco Allegro’s etymological theoryNegativeOct 7, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Linguists reject Allegro’s proposed Sumerian-Hebrew-Greek connections as implausible.
“the connections that are made are just not considered plausible by linguists today.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:40:17
Allegro’s proposed etymology of Christ lacks a plausible evidentiary link.
“the connection there is, as far as any scholars can tell, entirely imaginary. There's no real plausible link.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:42:29
Sumerian is not directly related to other known languages.
“Sumerian is a language isolate too, which means it's not directly connected to any other languages that are still around or that were even around anciently.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:43:11
Genesis may have circulated before its flood story was added.
“Genesis actually was circulating in a version that didn't have a flood story. Until someone put it in there.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:44:11
The Ethiopian Bible likely derives from a Septuagint tradition brought to Aksum around the fourth century.
“The Ethiopian Bible descends probably from some people who probably brought a version of the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Bible, down to the kingdom of Aksum, probably late 3rd or early 4th century CE.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:48:12
Ethiopian manuscripts have limited value for reconstructing the earliest biblical text.
“text critically. In trying to reconstruct the earliest possible Bible, the Ethiopian manuscripts are of very little value.”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 1:49:54
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