Burbridge, back so long ago that I was still in school, obviously did not know everything about jets and quasars that we know today.
Just a moment...discusses just one of a few hundreds of examples.......
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken