Scientists know that absolute objectivity has yet to be attained. But ask poets. Theologian Walter Bruggemann, in The Poetic Imagination writes, “to address the issue of a truth greatly reduced requires us to be poets that speak against a prose world. . . By prose I refer to a world that is organized in settled formulae… By poetry I mean language that moves, that jumps at the right moment, that breaks open old worlds with surprise, abrasion and pace. Poetic speech is the only proclamation worth doing in a situation of reductionism.” Are people better at making observations, discoveries, and decisions if they remain neutral and impartial? No. As Alice in the rabbit hole looked for truth learns, as the poet eloquently probes into the cosmos understands, truth is not dependent upon objectivity.
Knowledge will be pursued and it will be found, but only by those who love and who find truth. Objectivity, as Alice found in her crisis, as the poet understands in his craft, is impossible. And undesirable. Are people better at making observations, discoveries, and decisions if they remain neutral and impartial? Absolutely not. And, by the way, Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life!