Long time horror author, Stephen King, made some interesting statements about intelligent design and also some very generic and extreme statements about religion in general.
He stated:
The very construction of the world and the fact that we seem to be the only blue-populated planet in the universe — and we’ve been looking for quite a while now, at least since the late 50s —it makes you have to believe that if we happened by accident, it would make winning the lottery look like flipping a coin.
It’s so complex. So I have a tendency to believe in intelligent design.
He is appealing to the concept of fine tuning the best evidence for which is the shockingly yet, not surprising, replies from the Atheist community to the effect that; well, of course, it is “fine tuned” (by a blind, random, mind-less, goal-less, accumulation of happy accidents) otherwise, we would not be here to talk about it. You see, when you believe in accidents resulting in life, the universe and everything then you make evidence for design impossible by simply claiming that the universe is as it is by chance, accident, coincidence, it just happened, it just happens to have happened that way.
Well, this does not do away with the evidence for fine tuning but does away with Atheism as a legitimate view of life, the universe and everything (including, of course, YHVH).
But, just like Richard Dawkins can appeal to intelligent design by aliens; Stephen King does not, necessarily appeal to “God” (whatever that is).
King notes that in the end, ultimately, the reason he rejects “organized religion”—as if un, or dis organized religion is any better—is that any and all of them eventually end up “putting a gun in your hand” so as to do away with those who disagree; which is an utterly preposterous, extremist, dogmatic and militant thing to claim. In fact, we I proved in the article Religious wars vs. Atheist wars; a survey that claims to cover 10,000 years of war concludes that less than 7% were “religious” (and half of those involve Islam).
Stephen King also stated:
The other thing is that I think believing in a God, a higher power or some sort of a spiritual force, is enriching to a person’s life.
This is another correlation with Richard Dawkins who claims that people feel liberated and relieved when they realize that God does not exist–see my article Being an atheist: the best reason is that it feels oh, so good.
King continued thusly:
So, while I don’t hold any brief for the afterlife one way or another — I’m an agnostic that way — I love the idea that there could be a power greater than myself that’s sort of writing the script.
I try to live my life by saying that God may be watching out for me, but I still had better only cross when the little man turns white.
Interestingly, his statement about crossing the street reflects a biblical principle as when satan told Jesus, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You’; and ‘On their hands they will bear You up, So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone” Jesus replied “it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test’” (Matthew 4).
See attached video for the relevant segment of the Stephen King interview.
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Source: Chris Branch, “Stephen King Has A ‘Tendency To Believe In Intelligent Design’,” Huffington Post, September 25, 2014 AD