David McKechnie tells a great story about a rather unlikely speaker who came to Bob Jones University sometime back. Bob Jones is a stronghold of fundamentalism. According to the story the speaker told the young people, "You are naive. You cannot continue to take the Bible and apply literalism to it. For example," he said, "take the Old Testament. The Hebrew for `red' and `reed' is the same word. When it talks about Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in pursuit, it really means that it was a Reed Sea. That was no great miracle. There were only about two inches of water in that Reed Sea. It was more like a marsh. A wind came along, blew the water aside, and they were able to slip on through." 

And as he told them that, a student in the back of th…