In other news I picked up a copy of R.A. Torrey’s book Difficulties in the Bible today. Torrey was a great and learned evangelist and theologian in the late 19th/early 20th century. He also was the editor of the (in)famous four volume series entitled The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth and as such might be considered a fundamentalist in the true sense of the word and "should not be confused with that of a militant religious fanatic or the like, as is implied by the word in the media and elsewhere" (see http://www.xmission.com/~fidelis/ ). I was surprised by how good the content of the book is given its age and was reminded of C.S. Lewis’s recommendation that we read old books because they have something good to say to us. So I think this old book by Torrey has something good to say.