David Klinghoffer

_{Senior Fellow and Editor, Evolution News}

David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. 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.

Archives

Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

_{David Klinghoffer
November 4, 2025}

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it.

Jonathan Witt Takes Us on a Fantastic Voyage

_{David Klinghoffer
October 23, 2025}

"You’re a computer geek living thirty years in the future, and you just won a lottery for a space flight to a distant planet, as yet unnamed."

From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025}

The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds.

New Audiobooks by John West, David Klinghoffer Available Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025}

Speaking of Amazon, we follow the reviews there, and it’s always welcome to see what readers have to say. I’ll share the top review of each book respectively.

Maturing Toward God: Update from Charles Murray

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025}

Why there is something rather than nothing is the question posed in our video, "Proof of God in 3 Minutes," about the law of conservation of matter and energy.

From John West, a Concise Explanation of Evolution’s Toxicity

_{David Klinghoffer
October 13, 2025}

At a dinner at my home, a guest launched into a lengthy explanation of why, as a religious person, neither he nor anyone should be bothered by “evolution.”

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025}

In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound.

A New Second Edition of Mathematician Granville Sewell’s Book Is Out Now

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2025}

Dr. Sewell wrote perhaps the most moving essay we've ever published here, under the title, "The Biggest Theological Objection to Design."

Charlie Kirk and the Ultimate Form of Cancellation

_{David Klinghoffer
September 11, 2025}

It's not just on college campuses. There are many public forums, including churches, synagogues, and city streets.

On Human-Chimp Genetic (Dis)Similarity, Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2025}

Would anyone know that the 1 percent icon has finally fallen, if we hadn't broken the story? It seems not.

When Charlie Kirk Talked About Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2025}

People will be talking about Charlie Kirk’s legacy for a long time. You could start anywhere.

Charlie Kirk Died Debating

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2025}

That is a remarkable thing to be able to say about someone. He wasn't giving a speech. He was debating. And not just one opponent, but all comers.

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025}

Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us.

Logan Gage: Intelligent Design in a Thomistic Perspective

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2025}

Dr. Gage warns against “psychologizing those that disagree with us. Especially as philosophers, we don't like to do this."

An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

_{David Klinghoffer
September 3, 2025}

Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear.

In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025}

A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT.

Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025}

It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.”

Woodpecker Is a Stunning Example of Irreducible Complexity

_{David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2025}

A partially functional woodpecker evolving to be a functional woodpecker would be evolutionary dead-end.

The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025}

Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body.

Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025}

Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new.