An Open Mind

“There were two mutually opposing hypotheses with respect to the possible consequences of eating of the fruit of that tree.  There was the theory of the one party who called himself God and who, therefore, in dogmatic fashion, asserted that “death” would be the only possible consequence of eating of the forbidden fruit.  Then there was the theory of the second party.  This party was not dogmatic at all.  He only claimed that scientific experimentation requires an open mind.  Especially was this true, in the case of the first scientific experiment ever to be made.  There were no records of what had happened in the past.  And to speak of this tree, in distinction from all other trees, as a “forbidden” tree is to assume that that one party alone owned all the world.” (Essays on Christian Education, p. 25)