These days I'm a pew sitter. I'm from a fundamentalist background. From 1960 through 1963 I was enrolled in Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. Moody has always been a bastion of fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism asserts that several historic doctrines are "fundamentals", absolutely essential to the Christian faith. Of these, I've found only one to be unique to fundamentalists, distinguishing them from other relatively conservative Christians. That one is the inerrancy and infallibility of the Bible.

At Moody, we were taught to defend the Bible against claims that it contained errors and inconsistencies. Generally this involved narrative details which could, in fact, easily be explained plausibly; decidely "straw" problems, by comparison to the numerous substantial problems that we simply managed not to see.

We were not taught tbat a year is 360 days long; I've never heard that one before in my life. Nor were we strictly held to creation in 7 24 hour days, as taught by just a small fraction of fundamentalists so far as my experience indicates. I am not trying to paint fundamentalist Christians as a mass of people at that level of mentality.