Demonstrating Evolution from the Bible?

Ipetrich,You took that scripture out of context my friend. That scripture is talking about judgement.Dr Cresswell,By your statement were you saying that God is done with Israel? There is always a remnant of jews that are Christians. In fact there is a prophecy that was written 2,500 years ago that Israel after 2,500 years of exile would be brought back into their own land(Ezekiel 37). In 1948 they became a nation. It is also written that they will become a Christian nation before the return of Jesus Christ(Romans 9-11). Written almost 2,000 years ago.[This message has been edited by drummachine, 02-15-2003][This message has been edited by drummachine, 02-15-2003]

‘But the Bible’s not a science textbook, is it?’
Editorial by Carl Wieland
First published in:
Creation Ex Nihilo 22(2):4
March—May 2000This common objection to believing the straightforward history of Genesis has, in one sense, a simple answer ‘No, it’s not’. Dr D. James Kennedy correctly says about the Bible, ‘It is not a scientific textbook. It is not a textbook on religion. It is not a textbook at all; it is a revelation from God!’1Keep up to date with the latest creation information!
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Kennedy D.J., What if Jesus had never been born? Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN, USA, p. 105, 1994. Unlike the Bible, textbooks rapidly become out of date in any case.Return to text.Broadwater D.A., email January 2, 1998. Return to text.For any who have been misled by a common bibliosceptical assertion, the Bible does not claim that pi (p) is exactly 3; see Grigg, R., Does the Bible say pi equals 3.0? Creation 17(2):24—25, 1995. Return to text.