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I was listening to an audiobook version and got about a third through the book. I decided I want to read it instead, so I’ll be starting it today. I think I’ll be able to keep track of the characters and situations much better.

First impression after skimming through this book: I wish each recipe had a picture with it; various crust recipes that look like they’re good; lots of good info about pies and making pies at the beginning; I’m going to make one of the recipes this weekend 🙂

I’m going to listen to the audiobook which is narrated by the author so that should be fun!

I don’t know why Goodreads says it only has 300+ pages. It has over 1000 pages.

I read through 6 chapters and decided to stop. I’m just not enjoying this book. I teach biology and love the subject of fungi. Some parts (factual information) of the book were very interesting but the majority wasn’t. It was mostly pseudoscientific and uncritical speculation mixed in with philosophical ramblings and overly flowery writing. So overall I found the book to be tedious and boring.

9 — “No Transitional Species Have Ever Been Found”
10 — “The Evolutionary ‘Tree of Life’ is Not Implied in Biology or the Fossil Record”
11 — “Macroevolution Has Never Been Observed”

Foundational falsehoods 1 - 8:
Evolution = Atheism
Sacred Scriptures are the “Word of God”
Human Interpretation is “Absolute Truth”
Belief is Knowledge
Evolutionism Part 1: Evolution is the Religion of Atheism
Evolutionism Part 2: Evolution Must Explain the Origin of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Evolution is Random
There are No Beneficial Mutations