David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer is an Orthodox Jewish author and essayist, and a proponent of intelligent design. He attended Brown University in the eighties. He is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, an institution that supports the intelligent design movement.

Life and work

Klinghoffer is an Orthodox Jew raised in Reform Judaism by his adoptive parents, and formally converted to Orthodox Judaism, Klinghoffer believes that science can include support for an underlying intelligent design in the development of living things and the universe as a whole, and, indeed, that some scientists hold to such views.

Klinghoffer is an author of the site "Evolution News & Science Today".

Publications

• 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. https://archive.org/details/discoveryofgod00davi. 
• Klinghoffer, David (2006). Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History. Three Leaves. ISBN 978-0-385-51021-9. https://archive.org/details/whyjewsrejectedj00davi. 
• Klinghoffer, David (2007). Shattered Tablets: Why America Ignores the Ten Commandments at Its Peril. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51567-2. https://archive.org/details/shatteredtablets00klin. 
• Klinghoffer, David (2008). How Would God Vote?: Why the Bible Commands You to Be a Conservative. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51542-9. https://archive.org/details/howwouldgodvotew0000klin. 
• Klinghoffer, David (2010). Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell. Discovery Institute Press. ISBN 0-7432-4267-X.  Internet Archive link.
• Debating Darwin's Doubt: A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied. Discovery Institute Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1936599288.