Stephen King is the living master of horror fiction and a pretty darned good writer by any standard. NPR has an interesting interview with him on the occasion of his new novel, Joyland (which sounds like a good one), in which he affirms his belief in Intelligent Design.
From Stephen King, Author Of ‘Joyland’: On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared : NPR:
I don’t like to get scared, but I greatly enjoyed King’s recent time-travel thriller about a man trying to stop the Kennedy assassination entitled 11/22/63. I’m intrigued that King is thinking along these lines.On his belief in God and whether it has changed over time
“I choose to believe it. … I mean, there’s no downside to that. If you say, ‘Well, OK, I don’t believe in God. There’s no evidence of God,’ then you’re missing the stars in the sky and you’re missing the sunrises and sunsets and you’re missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But, at the same time, there’s a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, ‘Well, if this is God’s plan, it’s very peculiar,’ and you have to wonder about that guy’s personality — the big guy’s personality. And the thing is — I may have told you last time that I believe in God — what I’m saying now is I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts and I refuse to be pinned down to something that I said 10 or 12 years ago. I’m totally inconsistent.”
HT: Matthew Schmitz
