David Klinghoffer is an Orthodox Jewish author and essayist, and a proponent of the pseudoscientific idea of

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. He is a Senior Fellow of the

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, the organization that is the driving force behind the

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. He was a frequent contributor to ''

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'', 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

and to discredit Darwinian views of evolution.

Religion

Klinghoffer is an Orthodox Jew who has written a spiritual memoir about his religious background. He was raised in

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by his adoptive parents, and formally converted to

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, In his book, ''Why the Jews Rejected Jesus'', Klinghoffer theorizes that Jewish rejection of

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allowed

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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

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into Europe. In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105-page

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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.''Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell''. (Discovery Institute Press, 2010) edited by David Klinghoffer
Online here

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