Word: bakker
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Evangelicalism's practitioners are quick to defend themselves. Says Jim Bakker, high-pressure preacher of TV's P.T.L. (for People That Love) Club: "If Johnson Wax didn't have an identifiable name, how would one know to buy it?" An even bigger star, Billy Graham, mildly invokes the great Evangelicals of the past to defend the jet-setting and electronic gimmickry that have become a part of his calling. "John Wesley had to go on horseback. George Whitefield had to spend all that time crossing the Atlantic 13 times. They used to have to shout at the top of their...
...Crompton, professor of Geology, said Bakker's work is "a very positive approach to the problem, but I don't think it's a complete solution...
Gould added that there is insufficient evidence to support Bakker's premise that vast amounts of land erosion occurred during the period...
...theory, formulated by Robert T. Bakker of John Hopkins University, emphasized the reduction of the rate of dinosaur species formation as a result of the draining of the shallow seas and the erosion of continental land masses...
Stephen Gould, professor of Geology, said yesterday Bakker's concentration on the decrease in the dinosaur's species origination rate contrasts with traditional theories' emphasis on an increased death rate...