David Klinghoffer

_{Senior Fellow and Editor, Evolution News}

David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of six books including The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy and, with Senator Joseph Lieberman, The Gift of Rest. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.

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Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish: “A Game Changer”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2025}

Among our partners around the world, one of the finest, doing some of the most impressive work, is the En Arche Foundation in Poland.

Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025}

Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological.

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025}

When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”?

Casey Luskin: Intelligent Design, Islamic Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
March 1, 2025}

Much of the focus is on the “junk DNA” argument against ID, but stay tuned for the amusing case of Dr. Dan Stern Cardinale and the feathered crocodile.

Weaponizing Winsomeness: Eric Metaxas and John West on Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{David Klinghoffer
February 25, 2025}

Leaders such as Francis Collins, under the cover of his own performative winsomeness, have prioritized being liked and respected by secular elites.

A Useful Christian: John West on Francis Collins and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{David Klinghoffer
February 24, 2025}

There are Stockholm syndrome Jews as well — you’ll see them parading with “anti-Zionist” groups on campus and in the street.

“Friends with Francis”: How Institutions Devolve

_{David Klinghoffer
February 24, 2025}

Among the temptations we face as humans, friendship — otherwise such a wonderful thing — doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 10, 2025}

Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection.

Hey DOGE, Take a Look at NASA

_{David Klinghoffer
February 8, 2025}

For the materialist, atheist evolutionary viewpoint to be valid, life must be easy to evolve, so aliens MUST be out there somewhere.

Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

_{David Klinghoffer
February 5, 2025}

Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too.

John West: Science’s Debt to Intelligent Design Is Not Just in the Past — But Today

_{David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2025}

The God hypothesis… Where have I heard that phrase, used by columnist Ross Douthat, before?

New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 14, 2025}

Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better.

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2025}

I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

_{David Klinghoffer
January 7, 2025}

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly.

Steve Meyer and Comic Brad Stine on Insect Mimicry, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
January 4, 2025}

Apart from being a funny guy, Stine brings a gift for some shrewd common-sense, including about evolution.

No. 10 Story of 2024: Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is Cutting Edge

_{David Klinghoffer
December 23, 2024}

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast.

“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2024}

You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true.

Meyer: Cambridge University’s Role in Advancing the Scientific God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2024}

Stephen Meyer was in Cambridge, England, and he gave an unusual “on the spot” presentation about Cambridge University itself.

Denying Darwin: Berlinski and Meyer in Cambridge

_{David Klinghoffer
December 10, 2024}

These kinds of conversations between Steve Meyer and David Berlinski are usually confined to late night chats when the time zones in Seattle and Paris permit.

On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

_{David Klinghoffer
December 3, 2024}

Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds.