Joe Rogan Experience #2562 - Dan McClellan · Aired Oct 7, 2026
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Israel becoming a state and funding archaeology explains why the Qumran caves probably would have been discovered anyway.
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The counterfactual discovery prediction cannot be tested. Its supporting history, however, misattributes the early work. The excavating institution records joint Jordanian, Ecole biblique and Palestine Archaeological Museum campaigns in 1949-1958, supported by the French foreign ministry. This concerns those campaigns, not later Israeli archaeology.
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Is it true that Israel becoming a state and funding archaeology explains why the Qumran caves probably would have been discovered anyway?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The counterfactual discovery prediction cannot be tested. Its supporting history, however, misattributes the early work. Dan McClellan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2562 - Dan McClellan, aired Oct 7, 2026, at 1:27:24. The supporting source is ebaf.edu, linked below.
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