Carl Wieland

Carl Wieland is an Australian young Earth creationist, author and speaker. He was the managing director of Creation Ministries International, a Creationist apologetics ministry. CMI are the distributors of Creation magazine and the Journal of Creation.

Biography

Wieland was a medical doctor. He graduated from University of Adelaide, South Australia. In 1986, he stopped practising medicine due to an accident with "a fully laden fuel tanker at highway speeds." He spent over five months in hospital, undergoing more than fifty operations . He is past president of South Australia's Christian Medical Fellowship.
Wieland claimed he was an atheist at university. However, in 1976 Wieland formed the Creation Science Association, a South Australian creationist organisation modelled after the Creation Research Society. They published Ex Nihilo magazine from 1978, "to explain and promote special creation as a valid scientific explanation of origins." CSA merged in 1980 with a Queensland group to form the Creation Science Foundation, that later became Answers in Genesis. AiG split in 2005 after disagreements between Carl Wieland, CEO Australia, and Ken Ham, CEO USA. Ham retained leadership of US and UK branches. Wieland retained an Australian branch, named Creation Ministries International, affiliated with Canadian, New Zealand and South African branches, with offices in USA and UK.
On 6 March 2015, Wieland retired from active creation ministry, and stepped down as CEO of CMI-Australia.

Reactions to Wieland

Alec MacAndrew, in 2006, states that, while he perceived Wieland to be "one of the more careful proponents of creationism", Wieland had nevertheless failed to update his reference to scientific data, to show that Mitochondrial Eve had been dated to 175,000 years ago, rather than 6,500 years ago. MacAndrew argued that therefore, the misinterpretation of data could not support a literal biblical Eve.