{"id":7947,"date":"2024-09-02T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","slug":"scientific-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7947","title":{"rendered":"SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quote worth considering from poet Walt Whitman:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI like the scientific spirit\u2014the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine\u2014it always keeps the way beyond open\u2014always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake\u2014after a wrong guess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This &#8220;scientific spirit&#8221; Whitman admired so much is how believers should approach matters of interpretation of Scripture and of doctrine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, we all too commonly latch onto &#8211; unquestioningly &#8211; whatever we grew up with or whatever we have heard some charismatic preacher propound for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote worth considering from poet Walt Whitman: \u201cI like the scientific spirit\u2014the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine\u2014it always keeps the way beyond open\u2014always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}