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Creation Ministries International (CMI) is a non-profit young Earth creationist organisation of autonomous Creationist apologetics ministries that promote a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis.〔(CMI Webpage - "Should Genesis be taken literally?" )〕 Ministries are located in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.〔CMI Webpage - (Contact Us )〕 ==History== In 1977, the Creation Science Association (CSA) was organised in Adelaide, Australia by Dr. Carl Wieland. In 1978 the organisation began the magazine ''Ex Nihilo'' (from the Latin phrase ''Creatio ex nihilo'', meaning "Creation out of nothing"). Soon after, the Creation Science Foundation (CSF) took over production of ''Ex Nihilo'' (later renaming it ''Creation Ex Nihilo'', and eventually simply ''Creation''). In 1984, CSF started the ''Ex Nihilo Technical Journal'' for more in-depth analysis of creation issues (it was later renamed ''Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal'', then simply ''TJ'', and now the ''Journal of Creation''). In the mid-1990s, Ken Ham, formerly of the Creation Science Foundation and then part of the Institute for Creation Research, formed an autonomous ministry in the United States. This ministry, along with the Australian Creation Science Foundation, were branded Answers in Genesis (AiG); eventually, legally-autonomous Answers in Genesis offices were opened in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In late 2005/early 2006, the US and UK offices had differences in operating philosophy with the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African offices and removed themselves from the international group. Since the US office managed the website for the entire international group and took the "AiG" name with them, the latter four offices were forced to rebrand under the name ''Creation Ministries International'' (CMI). CMI retains its presuppositional (rather than evidential) emphasis.〔CMI webpage -(Presuppositionalism vs evidentialism, and is the human genome simple? )〕 In late 2006, CMI established offices in the UK and USA. Since then CMI has distributed ''Creation'' magazine and the ''Journal of Creation'' in the USA itself. CMI publishes ''Creation'' magazine as well as ''Journal of Creation''. ''Creation'' has subscribers in more than 170 countries,〔CMI website - (Creation magazine )〕 with 60,000 copies of each issue produced.〔(Australia Post: Priority Magazine )〕 ''Creation'' is published four times a year. The ''Journal of Creation'' is published three times a year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creation Ministries International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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