Carl Wieland
Carl Wieland | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Young-earth creationist writing and advocacy; rejection of Big Bang cosmology and evolution |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Young-earth creationism |
| Institutions | Creation Ministries International |
Carl Wieland (born 1950) is an Australian author, speaker and former medical doctor who is a leading figure in the young-earth creationist movement. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Background
Wieland graduated as a medical doctor in 1973 and began speaking on creation and evolution by invitation. In 1977 he founded the Creation Science Association of South Australia, described as the first formal creationist organisation in Australia. He later served as managing director and CEO of Creation Ministries International (formerly the Australian branch of Answers in Genesis), a creationist apologetics ministry, until his retirement from active ministry in 2015. He stopped practising medicine in the 1980s following a serious road accident.
Ideas
Wieland promotes young-earth creationism, rejecting both biological evolution and mainstream cosmology. He argues, on both biblical and what he presents as scientific grounds, that the universe is only thousands of years old and that "infinitely old" or Big Bang cosmologies are untenable. In his writing he commends creationist works on cosmology, such as Dismantling the Big Bang by John Hartnett and Alex Williams and Jonathan Sarfati's Refuting Compromise. These views are rejected by the scientific mainstream.