Robert Bakker
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Robert Bakker is a popular figure in dinosaur paleontology, largely credited with the "dinosaur renaissance" of the late 1960s and 1970s. Bakker was influential in asserting holophyly of Dinosauria, with Peter Galton in 1974, and his well known book, The Dinosaur Heresies published in 1986, presented for the first time to the public a synopsis of the new view of dinosaurs.
In addition Bakker is a Pentecostal preacher, yet still believes in evolution. It this article [1], his views are described thusly:
- Bakker sees little conflict between religion and science. A Pentecostal preacher, he says scientists and creationists alike would do well to read Augustine, the fifth century scholar and source of much of the Christian tradition and belief. In addition to studying textual revelation, Augustine sought to interpret the scriptures in light of natural revelation. “And after reading Genesis and thinking about it he came up with the conclusion that the story in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 was not a simple historical sequence of events. It just couldn't be. It's not what the words meant. It just wasn't.”
