April 14, 2025 -- Proverbs 12:22 -- The lies in the dire wolf de-extinction story
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Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 12:22 ESV
It is amazing how quickly a lie can spread. People are ever so ready to receive the latest hyped-up claim and pass it along. When the news is exposed as exaggerated, or worse as an outright lie, then there is embarrassment and a readiness to move to the next “it” thing. Take the over-the-top claim of a bio tech firm that has trumpeted the news it de-extincted the dire wolf.
Okay, first some background. The dire wolf went extinct long ago. A fact checker website will tell you the dire wolf is closely related to the jackal, not the gray wolf. There was no dire wolf DNA spliced into gray wolf genetics to produce the three pups recently born. So, what happened? Gray wolf genes were edited at certain points to produce a designer version of the gray wolf. It is not a dire wolf.
Why does any of this matter?
The bio-tech company is playing at being a god.
The bio-tech company is lying about what it produced.
The people who hear the reports are caught up in a huge lie.
The fact is many more lies are bound up with this. The lie of evolution—the goo via the zoo to you lie of our world is the over-arching background narrative. Either everything created itself out of nothing (the bangingest lie of our unscientific world today) or God created all things out of nothing. The “de-extinction” of the dire wolf is a lie that is meant to support the even bigger lie of evolution. The philosophy behind evolution expects if there is no god, there is no one to whom humanity needs to be accountable.
Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD precisely because lies are in direct opposition to God, Who is Truth. Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD in this instance of the fake news about the dire wolf because perpetrators of this lie seek to reinforce the greater lie that there is no god governing this world. Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD because they serve to distract ordinary people from seeing the truth that this world belongs to God. He has created it. He governs it by His power. It is a world full of lies and sin and the Father sent Jesus to expose the sins and lies of our hearts so that in humble confession we would turn away from our sinfulness to God. Finally, the Spirit uses stories, like this one about the dire wolf, to help Christians teach the Truth in a way that is concrete and relevant.
Father in heaven, let Your word sink deep into my heart, mind and soul. By Your Spirit teach me what is true so that with holy boldness I can effectively witness to Jesus Christ Who is the way, the truth and the life. Amen.
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