Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dogs created separately from wolves – Really! Well, I'm back after a health absence. After surgery and recovery, I've had a lot of time to think, write, and plan. Here I cover a dozen blog posts I published during the break, then introduce a phenomenon I'm going to start calling the "young-earth influencer" — the social media accounts that flood Facebook groups with YEC content all day, every day, without any ability to evaluate what they're sharing. To illustrate the problem, I walk through a post by one of these influencers arguing that dogs couldn't possibly share ancestry with wolves — a conclusion that flatly contradicts what Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham, and virtually every other YEC organization actually teaches. It's a perfect case study in how YEC rhetoric, once internalized, gets applied indiscriminately — even against itself.
Chapters
0:00 I'm back — what happened
1:07 The surgery: prostate cancer and recovery
3:37 Chess rating as a cognitive recovery metric
7:39 Blog posts written during the break
20:10 Returning to YouTube and the YEC influencer problem
21:14 Introducing Jason Ash and Pete Fiske
26:44 Dogs weren't domesticated from wolves — reading the argument
31:37 What mainstream YEC actually teaches about dogs and wolves
37:33 Why YEC influencers can't evaluate what they share
40:13 Wrapping up and what's coming next
Suggested Titles
1. I'm Back — And a YEC Influencer Just Argued Dogs Aren't Related to Wolves
2. When YEC Logic Turns on Itself: Dogs, Wolves, and the Influencer Problem
3. Young-Earth Creationist Influencers Gone Wild (And Why It Matters)
4. Dogs Weren't Domesticated? One Influencer's Argument Against His Own Movement
5. The YEC Influencer Problem: Sharing Everything, Understanding Nothing
6. How YEC Rhetoric Contradicts Itself — The Dog and Wolf Edition
7. Return Video: Surgery Recovery, Blog Catch-Up, and YEC Influencers
8. If Wolves Can't Become Dogs, Ken Ham Has a Problem Too
9. I Was Gone for 8 Weeks. Here's What Happened (and What I Wrote)
10. The Difference Between YEC Scientists and YEC Influencers
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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Dogs created separately from wolves – Really! Well, I'm back after a health absence. After surgery and recovery, I've had a lot of time to think, write, and plan. Here I cover a dozen blog posts I published during the break, then introduce a phenomenon I'm going to start calling the "young-earth influencer" — the social media accounts that flood Facebook groups with YEC content all day, every day, without any ability to evaluate what they're sharing. To illustrate the problem, I walk through a post by one of these influencers arguing that dogs couldn't possibly share ancestry with wolves — a conclusion that flatly contradicts what Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham, and virtually every other YEC organization actually teaches. It's a perfect case study in how YEC rhetoric, once internalized, gets applied indiscriminately — even against itself.
Chapters
0:00 I'm back — what happened
1:07 The surgery: prostate cancer and recovery
3:37 Chess rating as a cognitive recovery metric
7:39 Blog posts written during the break
20:10 Returning to YouTube and the YEC influencer problem
21:14 Introducing Jason Ash and Pete Fiske
26:44 Dogs weren't domesticated from wolves — reading the argument
31:37 What mainstream YEC actually teaches about dogs and wolves
37:33 Why YEC influencers can't evaluate what they share
40:13 Wrapping up and what's coming next
Suggested Titles
1. I'm Back — And a YEC Influencer Just Argued Dogs Aren't Related to Wolves
2. When YEC Logic Turns on Itself: Dogs, Wolves, and the Influencer Problem
3. Young-Earth Creationist Influencers Gone Wild (And Why It Matters)
4. Dogs Weren't Domesticated? One Influencer's Argument Against His Own Movement
5. The YEC Influencer Problem: Sharing Everything, Understanding Nothing
6. How YEC Rhetoric Contradicts Itself — The Dog and Wolf Edition
7. Return Video: Surgery Recovery, Blog Catch-Up, and YEC Influencers
8. If Wolves Can't Become Dogs, Ken Ham Has a Problem Too
9. I Was Gone for 8 Weeks. Here's What Happened (and What I Wrote)
10. The Difference Between YEC Scientists and YEC Influencers
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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