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David Klinghoffer

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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›
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Evolution News Evolves

New features of the site include audio versions of every article, estimated reading times, advanced search, and in-context footnotes. Read More ›
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Big Announcement: Evolution News Is Now Science and Culture Today

Don’t worry, under editor David Klinghoffer, the content will remain the same. But the new name more accurately reflects an “evolution.” Read More ›
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With Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes,” Plato Exacts His Revenge

If I had no sense of humor whatsoever about the whole thing, I would point out that the nature of “genes” is the subject of a fascinating scientific dispute. Read More ›
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Photo: Walter Bradley (center), by Nathan Jacobson.

Remembering Walter Bradley (1943–2025)

I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way. Read More ›
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A Diffident Revolutionary

In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›
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Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›
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Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›
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Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Read More ›

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