188 - BYU Biologist Talks Faith & Science | Church History Matters I Science & Religion Series
Church History Matters
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to know whether God exists or not, you need to use religion as an epistemology. |
| 0:04.7 | Jamie is a biology professor at BYU. |
| 0:07.3 | It was when I came to BYU that I realized evolution was so difficult for people. |
| 0:11.8 | So what types of questions then is science particularly tooled to answer? |
| 0:16.1 | You want to know anything about how the natural world works, what it looks like. |
| 0:21.6 | And where does it fall short? |
| 0:22.6 | If you want to know what decisions you should make to be moral, those are all questions |
| 0:27.6 | that science can't touch. |
| 0:28.6 | What are some of the main sticking points where students especially perceive the conflicts |
| 0:34.6 | between science and religion? |
| 0:35.6 | If you base your testimony on this has to be God, |
| 0:40.1 | then you're setting your testimony up for defeat. |
| 0:43.6 | I want to know your students and colleagues. |
| 0:46.3 | What are some of the most common questions? |
| 0:48.1 | So probably the most common question I get is... |
| 0:52.3 | We're back once again, and today we have a guest joining us as well um dr jamie jensen so say hi |
| 0:59.6 | jamey hi nice to be here yeah good to have you with us dr jensen would you like us to call you |
| 1:06.2 | dr jensen would you like us to call you james what do you prefer? You can call me Jamie. |
| 1:11.2 | Okay. |
| 1:12.3 | Jamie's okay. |
| 1:13.2 | All right. |
| 1:14.5 | And Dr. |
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