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Carl Wieland
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Dr. Carl Wieland is a leading biblical creationist and the Managing Director of Creation Ministries International.
Wieland is a former atheist and former medical doctor from South Australia who founded Creation magazine and started one of Australia's first creationist organisations, which subsequently merged with another organisation started by Ken Ham and John Mackay in Queensland, eventually becoming Creation Ministries International (CMI).
After the merger with the Queensland group, Wieland's involvement reduced to being a local representative for the organisation. Later he and his family decided to move to Cairns in northern Queensland, but on the way he was involved in a horrific road accident which left him badly injured. Whilst recuperating, he was asked to temporarily take over management of CMI (then known as the Creation Science Foundation) as Ham had moved to America to work with the Institute for Creation Research and Mackay had left CSF. The temporary involvement, however, became permanent, and he still heads the organisation today.
As well as heading CMI, Wieland is a speaker with CMI and writes articles for Creation and CMI's peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Creation.
Following his accident, Wieland underwent numerous operations to repair his body, and when one of his ribs was removed more than once to provide material for bone grafts, he learnt that the rib is the one bone in the human body which, in the right circumstances, can regrow. He has subsequently included this fact in some of his talks, pointing out that Adam need not have spent his life missing a rib!
