David Klinghoffer
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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
Klinghoffer 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
Klinghoffer 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
Bibliography
- 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
- Klinghoffer, David (2010). Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell. Discovery Institute Press. .
- Klinghoffer, David, ed. (2018). Debating Darwin's Doubt: A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied. Discovery Institute Press. ISBN 978-1936599288. [
References
- ^ 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
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