It could happen. I had one of those very frustrating conversations the other day with someone who wasn't really listening to me. He asked me a question about a biblical issue, but his mind was so made up he did not really consider what I was saying. He had no imagination. He could not imagine the world as other than what he currently believed it to be.
Imagination means having the sort of mind that is hospitable to facts that are usually ignored.
Imagination is a willingness to take risks that the world may not be as it seems. In imagination, thought takes wings and rises above mere storing of facts and becomes adventure. My interrogator was not interested in learning how the world might be other than he already imagined it. He could not see the Bible as a way to stir up the imagination to see what he had not yet seen. He saw the Bible as a book of rules and regulations which sustained his existing view of the world.