"Look here Blackburn, you needn't parade your atheism so ostentatiously. I'm well aware of it. In fact that's what's bothering me. You're an atheist whereas I ... well, I never did make up my mind about God. That's not very astute of me, I suppose, but I haven't. I'm betwixt and between, and so I was wondering if it wouldn't be only fair to have a representative of the other side in on this." For a few seconds there was only the sound of their shoes on the bluestone walk that threaded across the stunted fall grass of the campus. "Fair? You're using the word _fair_ in connection with a scientific experiment?" "Only because its outcome seems so obvious to us. We have strong preconceptions and because of them we're liable to overlook possibilities. I think we should have someone with us who expects the experiment to work out differently, someone who believes implicitly in His existence." Blackburn thought about it as they rose in the Physics building elevator. "Well why not," he said, smiling in his peculiar catastrophic fashion. "You and I have an aggregate of 70 years experience in the laboratory, why _not_ bring in a clergyman to check our techniques, be in keeping with the general tone of this whole thing. Hell, yes!" * * * * * Later that day Brokley L. Rowan listened with a frozen serious face as they declared their intentions to him. A young and conscientious man who spent a great deal of time telling budding undergraduate physicists that God was every bit as ubiquitous as Planck's constant, he listened without one word of complaint, not protesting that they'd put him in a theologically impossible position, a position in which the only two alternatives were to either refuse to look after His interests or else participate in a piece of sacrilegion the purpose of which was to demonstrate that the first alternative was not a valid one. And when he met Pendelton a week later in the Physics building, Pendelton told him: "You and I'll get along fine. I want it to be clearly understood that I have _nothing_ against the church." Chaplain Rowan took his glasses off and began cleaning them. "And there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about. Even if we do disprove Him there'll always be doubters. You _count_ on a certain percentage of people who won't believe our evidence. You'll get all the skeptics showing up on Sunday morning as usual." Shaheen spoke with compensating soberness. "What I thought we'd do," he said, "is hold daily discussions on strategy. That way you can question any assumptions we make, check our logic, object as you see fit." "What we're trying to be about this thing is fair," Blackburn said. "Of course," Rowan replied. "Now the first point I wish to raise," Shaheen said, "is in regard to the gargoyles. They're very important, the gargoyles." Chaplain Rowan sat down on the window sill.