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Carl Wieland
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“”So, when Wieland became a Christian, he could see the great importance of the early chapters of Genesis—and that there was no need for those campus Christians to lose the intellectual battle.
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—And he gave up his medical practice to support young-earth creationism[1] |
Carl Wieland (born 1950) served as the Managing Director of Creation Ministries International (CMI). In keeping with the stance of that organization, he is an evangelical Christian and a young-Earth creationist.[1]
Wieland, who trained as a medical doctor at Adelaide University in South Australia, ceased practising medicine in 1986 prior to forming CMI after he crashed head-on into a fuel tanker and spent nearly six months laid up in hospital.[2]
He wrote extensively for two of CMI's magazines, the prole-feed vehicle Creation and the pseudo-scientific Journal of Creation; he also became a popular figure on the creationist lecture-circuit.
Wieland was a key player in the schism that saw CMI separate from its former parent-organization, Answers in Genesis in 2005. For a while there, Wieland and Ken Ham went on like two first-graders in a schoolyard, with Ham stealing CMI's magazine subscription-list and substituting an Answers in Genesis publication, and then Wieland accusing Ham of theft and moral failure.[3] You just can't make this stuff up. The dispute, widely reported, unmasked the unsavoury and inbred microcosm of the fringes that represent young-earth creationist belief.[4][5]
Wieland retired in 2015.[6]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carl Wieland retires after four decades. creation.com. 2 March 2015. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
- ↑ http://creation.com/regenerating-ribs-adam-and-that-missing-rib
- ↑ http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20070623/NEWS0103/706230388/Group-sues-Answers-Genesis
- ↑ Trouble in Paradise: Answers in Genesis Splinters. Archived from the original at Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2006.
- ↑ Lord of the ring. Archived from the original at theaustralian.com.au, 5 June 2007.
- ↑ http://creation.com/carl-wieland-retires