David Klinghoffer

Today is the 9th day in the Hebrew month of Av, a mourning day in Judaism called Tisha b’Av, meaning simply “9th of Av.”

Among hot-button controversies of the day, Darwinian evolution may be unique in being a question on which people express forceful opinions all the time, at high levels of the media and politics, all under a protocol where it’s the norm to have not even a basic idea what you’re talking about.