I picked up on his assertion that evolution is a fact in the appendix as well. I looked up the word in the dictionary and it said a fact is a thing that is indisputably the case. After reading his entire book I found there were so many gaps in the theory that it can't be indisputable. Especially the part about not having any hominid or chimpanzee fossils available for the period between 6 and 13 million years ago. This hole is filled with storytelling. Fiction is invention or fabrication as opposed to fact. I won't say that I think the story is not possible, or even probable, but it's a story, not fact.
Danielle Joseph
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I picked up on his assertion that evolution is a fact in the appendix as well. I looked up the word in the dictionary and it said a fact is a thing that is indisputably the case. After reading his entire book I found there were so many gaps in the theory that it can't be indisputable. Especially the part about not having any hominid or chimpanzee fossils available for the period between 6 and 13 million years ago. This hole is filled with storytelling. Fiction is invention or fabrication as opposed to fact. I won't say that I think the story is not possible, or even probable, but it's a story, not fact.
Danielle Joseph