Science and Faith w/ Dr. Gregory Gordon

Modern science has become a hollow shell of its former self, having abandoned the very philosophical foundations that once made it meaningful—specifically, the Aristotelian concepts of final and formal causation, which explain purpose and design. Dr. Gregory Gordon, a Catholic geologist and PhD from the Colorado School of Mines, argues that this epistemological stripping has reduced science to mere material and efficient causes, rendering it incapable of answering 'why' questions and leaving a void filled by scientism—the dangerous belief that science alone can explain all of reality. He traces this crisis to the Enlightenment, when Bacon and Descartes purged natural philosophy from academia, severing science from its roots in theology and metaphysics. Far from being enemies, Gordon insists that true science and faith are not only compatible but mutually reinforcing: genuine scientific inquiry, when pursued with reverence for God as creator, becomes an act of co-creation. He dismantles the myth that an old Earth (4.5 billion years) contradicts Scripture, pointing to the convergence of radiometric dating, stratigraphy, plate tectonics, and fossil succession as irrefutable evidence—none of which require Darwinian evolution or undermine Catholic doctrine. In a bold counter-narrative, he reveals that the Big Bang theory was once suppressed by atheist regimes like the Soviet Union, exposing science’s deep entanglement with ideology.