How I Tried on Fundamentalist Christianity and Found It Didn't Fit

"We were taught that the earth as we know it (humans included) was created in six days of twenty-four hours each approximately six to ten thousand years ago. The “accepted” explanation of modern scientific evidence of the great age of the earth was the so-called “Gap Theory.” Look it up. We were taught that the “blessed hope” of true followers of Jesus Christ living (not yet dead) was the “rapture” that would precede the “seven year tribulation period” during which…. Well, you probably know about that eschatology. We believed it way before Hal Lindsay and Tim LaHaye popularized it. Our church was full of literature by Clarence Larkin, the main popularizer of dispensational eschatology".