Bruce Gordon

Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Dr. Bruce L. Gordon is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Saint Constantine College in Houston, Texas, and Instructor of Logic, Mathematics, and Science in Saint Constantine’s Upper School. He has taught logic and philosophy at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, Baylor University, and Houston Christian University (formerly Houston Baptist University), and mathematics and science at The King’s College in New York City.  He is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, where he was Research Director for several years.

He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of physics from Northwestern University in Chicago, holds master’s degrees in analytic philosophy from the University of Calgary and systematic theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, an honors bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Calgary, and a piano performer’s diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Gordon is the contributing editor of two books, The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science (ISI Books, 2011) and Biological Information: New Perspectives (World Scientific, 2013) and the author of numerous articles and essays in journals and academic volumes, most recently Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science (Discovery Institute Press, 2023) and The Origin of the Soul: A Conversation (Routledge, 2024).

Archives

The Argument for Design in Cosmology

Bruce Gordon
September 9, 2008
On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Research Director Bruce Gordon speaks with Casey Luskin about the evidence for cosmic fine-tuning. With this technical discussion, Dr. Gordon explains some of theoretical and mathematical problems with attempts to dodge the evidence for cosmic fine-tuning such as the “multiverse” hypothesis and string theory. Dr. Gordon explains that, in the end, these objections to cosmic design amount to thinly veiled materialist philosophy that are rife with logical contradictions and a fundamental in ability to explain why something, rather than “absolute nothing,” …

The Divine Comedy: Dawkins’ Disco Inferno

Bruce Gordon
April 21, 2008
Richard Dawkins has got himself in a bit of a pickle and, in an effort to wash off the brine, now appears to be in a bit of a lather. In an op-ed this morning in the L.A. Times (see here), he is at pains to distance himself from remarks he made in the newly released movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Toward the end of the film, in an interview with Ben Stein at the British Museum, Dawkins confesses he has no idea how life originated on earth — nor does anyone, he admits — but, as Nobel laureate Francis Crick once theorized, it could well be explained by having been seeded here by an alien intelligence. Of course, he demurs with great gravity, this alien race would itself have evolved elsewhere in the universe by Darwinian means. In other words, Dawkins recognizes …

A Few Words about a Long-Winded Breach of Etiquette

Bruce Gordon
February 22, 2008
After debating whether Dan Brooks’ recent post at Panda’s Thumb should be dignified with a response, I’ve been persuaded that clearing away the worst of the dross is worth some of my time. Dan Brooks, a parasitologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, was invited by the Discovery Institute to participate in a private symposium held in Boston in early June 2007. The symposium revisited the issues raised at the 1966 Wistar Institute conference on mathematical challenges to the neo-Darwinian interpretation of evolution with a view toward assessing any progress that has been made in the last forty years. Brooks’ post at PT not only evinces poor etiquette in its attempt to discuss the content of a private symposium …