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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nAs governors across the U.S. consider whether to relax stay at home orders, many are pitting the words \u201cpolitics\u201d and \u201ceconomics\u201d against the word \u201cscience.\u201d California Governor Gavin Newsom, for example, told the Los Angeles Times.\u201cWe are going to do the right thing, not judge by politics, not judge by protests, but by science.\u201d\nAnd as Governor Brian Kemp opened up Georgia, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms urged people to \u201cFollow the data, look at the science, listen to the health care professionals and use your common sense.\u201d\nSimilar calls to \u201cbelieve in science\u201d or \u201clisten to science\u201d\xa0are all over policy debates and social media fights. But what does it mean to \u201cbelieve in science\u201d? And does \u201cscience\u201d have a unified answer to questions like \u201cwho gets a ventilator,\u201d or whether your child should go to summer camp?\nWe should be cautious when suggesting that science can speak in such a unified voice, says Sy Garte, a\xa0biochemist who has taught at New York University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Rutgers University.\n\u201cThe idea that \u2018science says\u2019\u2014suggesting that it's easy to come up with a consensus, a uniform, finished version of what is true\u2014that's a problem because that's very rarely the case,\u201d said Garte, who is also the editor in chief of God and Nature, a magazine from the American Scientific Affiliation. \u201cOne of the things you find out if you're a working scientist is that almost every answer brings up new questions. So we never actually finish learning anything in any field of science. We are continually trying to get deeper and learn more.\u201d\nGarte joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss the historic distrust between Christians and science, what science can and cannot answer, and how Christians should engage in conversations with neighbors who are suspicious of science.\nWhat is Quick to Listen?\xa0Read more\nRate Quick to Listen on\xa0Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on\xa0Twitter\nFollow our hosts on Twitter:\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Ted Olsen\nLearn more about Sy Garte\u2019s Book: The Work of His Hands\nRead Sy\u2019s testimony\nRead CT\u2019s coverage of the BioLogos\u2019 Francis Collins event\nMusic by\xa0Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced by\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by\xa0Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices