Creation Ministries International Sues Answers in Genesis
The Australian creationist group Creation Ministries International, run by Carl Wieland, has filed a lawsuit against Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis, the group behind the newly launched Creation Museum. Kentucky.com has the story.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening of Answers in Genesis’ $27 million Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky, a group called Creation Ministries International filed suit in the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Among other things, the suit claims the Kentucky group stole subscribers for its Answers magazine by claiming that the Australians’ Creation magazine was “no longer available.”
The suit is the most public move in what has been a growing rift between groups that are spreading the same Garden of Eden creation message on opposite sides of the globe.
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The end of the article says that Wieland is suing Ham’s group as a last resort: “CMI was left with no choice but to sue.” “At the end of the day . . . there has to be right-doing,” he said. “Things can’t just be swept under the carpet.”
Really? Is that the only option left in a situation like this? Read 1 Corinthians 6:1–8:
1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
Note especially the last two verses. It seems that Paul is saying that it is better to be defrauded and suffer wrong from a brother than to take matters before unbelievers. Not only can things just be swept under the carpet, they must be—if things cannot be settled outside of the courtroom.
Do you agree? Disagree? What am I missing here?
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Dutch creationist Johan Huibers of Schagen, the Netherlands has built a massive replica of Noah’s Ark. Johan’s ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high, and 20 cubits wide, which approximates two-thirds of a football field in length and three stories tall in height. As big as it is, it is only 1/5 the size of the original Ark, which was 300 cubits long, 30 cubits high, and 50 cubits wide.
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