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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.

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

_{David Klinghoffer
November 28, 2024}

One reason, Dr. Denton says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world.

Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2024}

How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise?

Atheist Richard Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a “Scientific Hypothesis,” Though Mistaken

_{David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2024}

This is a remarkable response, granting the premise of arguments for intelligent design like those of Stephen Meyer.

Watch: Steve Meyer and Joe Rogan, Full Podcast Episode Now on YouTube

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2024}

Whatever your political leanings, I think you’ll get a kick out of seeing philosopher of science Stephen Meyer in the same seat where Donald Trump sat recently.

An Artist Talks with Dembski about Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2024}

Karen Wong began thinking about the “specified qualities that show up in art” and how “those qualities also show up everywhere else in the universe.”

Europa Clipper Delayed by Hurricane Milton, Frustrating Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
October 10, 2024}

However desperate the hope for alien biology, how much of your money will they NOT spend to try to find it?

Evolutionary Icons and an Iconic Cover

_{David Klinghoffer
October 2, 2024}

Thank you to Jody Sjogren for the kind permission to share her work here with our readers.

Medicine’s “Sacred Space” — Grossly Violated

_{David Klinghoffer
September 26, 2024}

When my dad was dying, I saw both sides of the healthcare world, one that fought to save a life and the other that was coldly indifferent, even eager to end it.

Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2024}

His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented.

From Puzzles to Prison: Jonathan Wells in His Own Words

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2024}

We are receiving many emails expressing appreciation of him as a man, a thinker, a scientific investigator, a writer, a mentor, and a friend.

The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 19, 2024}

Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body?