"as i am sure you know really,what is called dispensationalism is not a rescue package imposed on scripture to avoid apparent clashes between the testaments,but rather built on the teaching of scripture."

No, Pete, that is not something I "know really"; if it were, I wouldn't have explained what I do believe in that regard. I know, and have known, numerous fundamentalists who, like you, believe in a young earth because they realized that that is the conclusion to be drawn from a strictly literal reading of the Bible. But the tendency has been that the more one of those individuals has studied the Bible for himself, rather than depend on what has been interpreted for him, the more likely that person (remember, I'm speaking here of strictly fundamentalist, young earth people) has been to reject dispensationalist interpretation as non-Biblical.