Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.

[Mister Agenda]

Well, help me "see the light" GC?  The three categories add to 100% for each year; what does the poll, from your perspective, mean?

 The first and third are the same thing, if you add them together you have 71%. There are in actuality only two categories .

GC

The first is: Actual word of God to be taken literally. 24%
The related one is: Inspired by God, not all to be taken literally. 47%

One of the main points of the survey is to distinguish between literalist fundamentalists and mainstream Christians, but you can't tell the difference. And in 1984, both of them combined were 85%.