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Journalist Tom Bethell Puts to Rest the “I’m Not a Scientist” Dodge

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My wife was complaining to me today that I don’t podcast enough. Hah! Here’s a new episode of ID the Future. As I’ve done already at Evolution News, I review veteran reporter Tom Bethell’s excellent new book, Darwin’s House of Cards: A Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates, which puts to rest the “I’m not a scientist” dodge for journalists, clergy, other professionals, and any thoughtful person at all who thinks he shouldn’t have to weigh the evidence for evolution for himself.

David Klinghoffer Takes a Look at Tom Bethell’s New Book

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David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2017
On this episode of ID the Future, David Klinghoffer reviews Tom Bethell’s book Darwin’s House of Cards. This volume’s approach to evolution, Klinghoffer says, should serve as a model for the media. Listen in to hear more about Bethell’s interviews with leading paleontologists Colin Patterson and Gareth Nelson.

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today
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.
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