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David Klinghoffer is anOrthodox Jewish author and essayist, and a proponent of the pseudoscientific idea ofintelligent design. He is a Senior Fellow of theDiscovery Institute, the organization that is the driving force behind theintelligent design movement. He was a frequent contributor toNational Review, and a former columnist for the Jewish weekly newspaperThe Forward, to which he still contributes occasional essays.

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 ofintelligent design and to discredit Darwinian views of evolution.^[1][2][3][4]

Klinghoffer is anOrthodox Jew who has written a spiritual memoir about his religious background. He was raised inReform Judaism by his adoptive parents, and formally converted toOrthodox Judaism,^[5] In his book,Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, Klinghoffer theorizes that Jewish rejection ofJesus allowedChristianity 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 ofIslam into Europe.^[6]

In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105-pageeBook titledSignature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell, edited by Klinghoffer, with chapters by Discovery Institute fellowsDavid Berlinski,Casey Luskin,Stephen C. Meyer,Paul Nelson,Jay Richards, andRichard Sternberg.^[7]

• 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.
• Thaxton, Charles; Bradley, Walter; Olsen, Roger; Tour, James; Meyer, Stephen; Wells, Jonathan; Gonzalez, Guillermo; Miller, Brian; Klinghoffer, David (2020).The Mystery of Life's Origin. Discovery Institute.ISBN 978-193659975-2.
• Klinghoffer, David (2025).Plato's Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome. Discovery Institute.ISBN 978-163712074-3.

• 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. [

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