David Klinghoffer is an Orthodox Jewish author and essayist, and a proponent of the pseudoscientific idea of intelligent design. He is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, the organization that is the driving force behind the intelligent design movement. He was a frequent contributor to National Review, and a former columnist for the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward, to which he still contributes occasional essays.
Intelligent design
editKlinghoffer has published a series of articles, editorial columns, and letters to the editor in both Jewish and non-Jewish conservative publications seeking to promote the pseudoscience of intelligent design and to discredit Darwinian views of evolution.[1][2][3][4]
Religion
editKlinghoffer is an Orthodox Jew who has written a spiritual memoir about his religious background. He was raised in Reform Judaism by his adoptive parents, and formally converted to Orthodox Judaism,[5] In his book, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, Klinghoffer theorizes that Jewish rejection of Jesus allowed Christianity to separate from Judaism and become a multi-ethnic religion. Christianity was thus able to achieve a dominance in Gentile Europe that would have been impossible for Judaism to attain. To Klinghoffer, this changed world history, because Christianity was able to serve as a bulwark against the spread of Islam into Europe.[6]
In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105-page eBook titled Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell, edited by Klinghoffer, with chapters by Discovery Institute fellows David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, and Richard Sternberg.[7]
Bibliography
edit- Klinghoffer, David (1998). The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-4267-X.
- Klinghoffer, David (2004). The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism. Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-49973-6.
- Klinghoffer, David (2006). Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History. Three Leaves. ISBN 978-0-385-51021-9.
- Klinghoffer, David (2007). Shattered Tablets: Why America Ignores the Ten Commandments at Its Peril. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51567-2.
- Klinghoffer, David (2008). How Would God Vote?: Why the Bible Commands You to Be a Conservative. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51542-9.
As editor
edit- Klinghoffer, David (2010). Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell. Discovery Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-4267-7. Internet Archive link.
- Klinghoffer, David, ed. (2018). Debating Darwin's Doubt: A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied. Discovery Institute Press. ISBN 978-1936599288. [
References
edit- ^ Klinghoffer, David (August 3, 2005). "Designs on Us". National Review. Archived from the original on 2011-10-19.
- ^ Klinghoffer, David (December 29, 2006). "Get Rich And Prosper". Jewish Forward.
- ^ Klinghoffer, David (February 12, 2007). "Happy Darwin Day! Celebrating mankind's discovery of eugenics". The Daily Standard. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Klinghoffer, David (November 19, 2007). "Teaching Jewish Kids About Intelligent Design". Jewcy.com.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Bernstein, Richard (December 16, 1998). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Secular Jew Feeds a Hunger on a Spiritual Journey". The New York Times.
- ^ Chilton, Bruce (November 4, 2005). "Exploring What Binds — and Divides — Jews and Christians". Jewish Forward. Archived from the original on October 18, 2006.
- ^ Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell. (Discovery Institute Press, 2010) edited by David Klinghoffer, Online here Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine