In Pete's case, CMI means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Ministries_International .. whose website is Creation.com

Various of us have noted that if that's his major source of info, his view will be...umm... limited. But he doesn't wish to entertain ideas that might possibly conflict with his faith....not an uncommon attitude... and at that web site there are articles & links to various people with 'science' degrees who can twist various data to 'seem' to deny evolution concepts.
All attempts to suggest to Pete and some others that IF there is a god, it could have made the laws of evolution seem not to have much effect... *shrug*.
Pete..(and many others)... are good folk; they just resist accepting anything which might possibly conflict with literal reading of their Bible.