Creationist Groups in major split
Posted by Brian on Mon 23-Jul-2007 at 4:25 pm
Late in 2005, Ken Ham’s US branch of the multinational Answers in Genesis (AiG) creationist organisation cut most of its ties with Carl Wieland’s Australian group of the same name. The UK branch of AiG retained its close link with the Ham group while the much smaller Canadian, New Zealand and South African branches retained their connection with Wieland’s retitled ‘Creation Ministries International’ (CMI) based in Brisbane, Australia. For simplicity’s sake, I will confine myself here to discussion of the US and Australian branches of the organisation.
CMI has been particularly anxious to present its side of the story and a veritable Noachian flood of previously confidential information has poured forth from its website (see References). This is the second major schism in this organisation’s history and CMI has at last seen fit to publish important details about the earlier split. Opinions differ as to ‘what really happened’ and ‘who was to blame’ for each division, and this article is my two bobs’ worth.
Read the article: Creationism – a House Divided
Sat 7-Jun-2008 at 9:20 pm
Young earth creationism may be a serious stumbling block for many well educated people who would like to believe, but are told by people like Answers in Genesis that the world was created in six literal days about 6000 years ago. Of course God could have, but did He? He could have just appeared to Adam each afternoon for six literal days and explaiend the order of cration in six days. The existence of microwave energy in the skies which astonomers say is result of the doppler shift in light travelling from the most distant galaxies for 13.8 billion years. Fossils of ammonites and trilobites buried hundreds of metres under sedimentary rocks often metamorphosed by igneous extrusions date back 140 to 570 million years. The church once dismissed Copernicus and Galileo for scientific theories that conflicted with religious ideologies, and is doing so again. This is not just foolish it is harmful to the credibility of the church and reduces the respect for Christian morals.