The AiG schism.

[shernren]

What are your comments about AiG America breaking away from what is now Creation Ministries International? To me I think it's just a clear indicator that the YEC movement really hasn't thought thoroughly about its philosophical and scriptural roots. The absence of a coherent response or position on logical theological implications such as Sabbatarianism demonstrates such. One outcome is that organizations haven't really "shaken down" their ideology and I believe this is what has happened - an ideological drift between members as the ideology slowly crystallizes into something mature.

This is a very interesting outcome of the split: AiG has pulled an article specifically criticising "Dr." Kent Hovind, while CMI hasn't.

http://lippard.blogspot.com/2006/03/answers-in-genesis-schism-us-group.html

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp vs
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2996/84/ ... find the heading "what is important for creationists to defend ... " and look up a bit; compare and contrast.

http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2571/ , and
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/1011hovind.asp for a view of what AiG pulled. What you see now: http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/1011hovind.asp
Anybody want to report the broken link?

 

[KerrMetric]

I'm trying to get to the bottom of this myself through a friend of a friend who knows Sarfati.

The story I heard was that AIG US/UK was being a little cavalier with the science side and the CMI group objected to this. This is evidenced by them taking down the Hovind criticism and getting perhaps into bed with any crazy person.

 

[shernren]

Does anybody have any exact date for when AiG pulled the Hovind article? Or at least whether this was before or after the split was publicly declared?