Carl Wieland (born 1950) is an Australian

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, author and speaker. He was the Managing Director of

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(formerly

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- Australia), a

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. CMI are the distributors of ''Creation'' magazine and the ''Journal of Creation''.

Biography

Wieland is a medical doctor who graduated from

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but he stopped practising medicine in 1986. This was due to an accident Wieland was in with "a fully laden fuel tanker at highway speeds." He endured five and a half months in hospital and has undergone more than fifty operations, as discussed in his book, ''Walking Through Shadows''. He is a past president of the Christian Medical Fellowship of South Australia. Wieland has said that during his time at university he was an

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. In 1976 Wieland formed the Creation Science Association (CSA), a

n creationist organisation modelled after the

Creation Research Society The Creation Research Society (CRS) is a Christian fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalist group that requires of its members belief that the Bible is historically and scientifically true in the original autographs, belief that "original created ...

. In 1978 this organisation began publishing a magazine, ''Ex Nihilo'' (later called ''Creation Ex Nihilo''), "to explain and promote special creation as a valid scientific explanation of origins." In 1980, CSA merged with a Queensland group to form the Creation Science Foundation, which subsequently became

(AiG). In 2005 AiG split as a result of long-standing disagreements between Carl Wieland, CEO of AiG-Australia and

Ken Ham Kenneth Alfred Ham (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist and apologist, living in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Christian apolo ...

, CEO of AiG-US. Ham retained leadership of the AiG's United States and United Kingdom branches under the AiG name, while Wieland retained the Australian branch and affiliation with the Canadian, New Zealand and South African branches, under the name

, and established CMI offices both the United States and the United Kingdom. On 6 March 2015, Wieland retired from active creation ministry, and stepped down as CEO of CMI-Australia.Carl Wieland retires, http://creation.com/carl-wieland-retires

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Creation Ministries International biography
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