Evolutionists Outfoxed by a Dog

In Brazil, a new animal was discovered after being hit and injured by a car. It was not as docile as a domesticated dog but not as aggressive as a wild dog. It wouldn’t eat regular dog food but ate rats instead. And despite having a body shape and size like that of some foxes, its coloring was different—black, compared to foxes’ reds and grays. According to scientists, the “dog-fox hybrid” had genes suggesting its mother was a pampas fox, and its father was some breed of domestic dog.

However, while scientists define the pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) as a fox, the animal has 74 chromosomes—closer to domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris), which have 78 chromosomes, than to true foxes (Vulpes), which have 34 to 64 chromosomes. Its ability to breed with domestic dogs confirms that the pampas fox belongs to the dog kind.

The discovery is shocking for evolutionists because they believe that the pampas fox and domestic dog are separated by more than 6 million years. These animals should supposedly be so different by now that they cannot breed. Geneticist Loren Rieseberg compared a domestic dog breeding with a pampas fox to “humans producing a viable hybrid with chimpanzees!”

While baffling to evolutionary scientists, this discovery confirms the Bible and its timeline. According to God’s Word, we know that there are only a few thousand years between the original dog kind that exited the ark and today’s species. God created the dog kind on day six of creation week, and he programmed them with incredible genetic variability. Speciation confirms the Bible: in their many shapes and sizes, dogs remain dogs.

This article is from Answers magazine, January–March, 2024, p. 18.