Re: [asa] AIG Lawsuit

As I have told others, the YEC dogma is pushed not as a "ministry," but
rather as a big business. Indeed, twisting Scripture and science to support
your unwarranted pre-suppositions has become profitable; if AiG does have to
pay some fees as a result of the lawsuit, it will no doubt be covered by the
contributions of naive church-goers.

-David Buller

On 6/22/07, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> FYI (from NCSE)
>
> Answers in Genesis is being sued by fellow young-earth creationists.
> The
> creationist measure in Tennessee is dead, at least for now. And NCSE is
> seeking candidates for a position in its Public Information Project.
>
> ANSWERS IN GENESIS IN LEGAL TURMOIL
>
> In the wake of the opening of its creation "museum" in northern
> Kentucky,
> Answers in Genesis is in the news again, due to a lawsuit filed against
> the
> young-earth creationist ministry in the Supreme Court of Queensland,
> Australia, by a rival ministry. The lawsuit is ultimately due to the
> acrimonious schism of AiG in 2005, due to differences between the
> Australian branch, headed by Carl Wieland, and the United States branch,
> headed by Ken Ham, over the structure and management of the
> organization.
>
> In the schism, the AiG branches in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and
> South Africa became Creation Ministries International, and the AiG
> branches
> in the United States and the United Kingdom continued as Answers in
> Genesis. CMI is now suing AiG over a number of issues arising from the
> schism, particularly control of Creation magazine; CMI alleges that the
> Kentucky group in effect stole subscribers for its new Answers magazine
> by
> ceasing to distribute Creation and claiming that it was "no longer
> available."
>
> The story broke in the mainstream media with a report about the lawsuit
> in
> The Australian (June 5, 2007), followed by a similar report in the
> Lexington Herald-Leader (June 17, 2007), one of the major newspapers in
> the
> vicinity of AiG's Kentucky headquarters. Both articles provide a useful
> introduction to the complicated history, and the tangle of accusations
> and
> counteraccusations, surrounding the schism.
>
> For further details and links to relevant documentation, however,
> consult a
> useful summary on the Duae Quartunciae blog, as well as the blog of Jim
> Lippard, a long-time observer of creationist groups who was reporting on
> the AiG schism from early 2006 and who was a quoted source in the
> Herald-Leader's article. A piece by Lippard on the schism is to appear
> in
> a future issue of Reports of the NCSE; in it, he concludes, "creationism
> continues to evolve in fascinating ways."
>
> For the story in The Australian, visit:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21848726-28737,00.htm
> l
>
>
> For the story in the Lexington Herald-Leader, visit:
> http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/100183.html
>
>
> For the story at the Duae Quartunciae blog, visit:
> http://duoquartuncia.blogspot.com/2007/06/answers-in-genesis-lawsuit.htm
> l
>
>
> And for the relevant stories on Jim Lippard's blog, visit:
> http://lippard.blogspot.com/search/label/Answers%20in%20Genesis%20schism
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
> "unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
>

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Sat Jun 23 21:36:04 2007