"The only Bishop (Ernest William Barnes...) in the Royal Society appears to have contracted the habit so prevalent among popular scientists of making stupid and unsupported statements... In his book, Scientific Theory and Religion, he tells us that the flatness and fixity of the earth were "taken over into the Christian Creeds." Which creeds? ...he describes as erroneous the "authorized teaching of the Roman Church" regarding the date of creation. What date did the Church authorize? He also refers to the "doctrine of the special creation of the species." There is no such doctrine. Incidentally one of the most eminent of English mathematicians, Professor Whittaker, F.R.S., severely criticizes the mathematical theories that are put forward in this book by Bishop Barnes."
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Karl Keating, Controversies: High-level Catholic Apologetics (2001) Ch. 6, note 40.
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Ernest Barnes
Ernest William Barnes (April 1, 1874 – November 29, 1953) was an English mathematician and scientist who became a and was ordained in the in 1902. In 1898 he was awarded the first Smith's Prize in mathematics. In mathematics he is remembered for the Mellin-Barnes Integrals and for the Barnes G-function, a contribution to the theory of transcendental functions. Barnes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909 and served as the Bishop of Birmingham from 1924 to 1953.
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