Things to ponder ... SIMON BLACKBURN, professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, read John Polkinghorne's books, "with their supreme contempt for philosophical reasoning and historical thinking, in despair about humanity's desperate self-deceptions and vanities and illusions. Everything will be all right in the end, we are washed in the blood of the lamb, we are blessed, and above all God is on our side. Who could dissent? Fantasy beats reason every time. People believe what they want to believe. I do not know how it is at Princeton, but at Cambridge there are eight established chairs in the Faculty of Divinity, but only two in the Faculty of Philosophy. Hallelujah!" "Even God, it seems, cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs." "Appeals to biblical authority are pure reader responses, hermeneutics run riot, postmodernism in action."
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