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Stephen King Has A 'Tendency To Believe In Intelligent Design'

Stephen King Has A 'Tendency To Believe In Intelligent Design'
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For Stephen King, life is too perfect for it to be a random occurrence.

The famed horror author said in a HuffPost Live interview Wednesday that humans being alive, the way nature works and our planet supporting life is too much to think that there was no help from a supreme being.

"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," King told host Josh Zepps. "It's so complex. So I have a tendency to believe in intelligent design."

King doesn't align himself with any organized religion, which he says ultimately leads to someone "putting a gun in your hand" or trying to wrong others of a different religion than your own. But he seems optimistic about the prospect of a creator leading the way through life.

"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," King said. "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."

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Intelligent Design Inspired By Nature
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Speedo famously designed high-performance swimsuits that were inspired by the denticles found on shark skin. The swimsuits were used in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and were worn by U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals in 2008. Researchers in the U.S. and Europe are also working on developing paints and coatings for ships, airplanes, submarines and wind energy plants that are based on the texture of the skin of sharks. (credit:Getty)
Plants(02 of03)
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The Eden Project, an educational charity in Britain, used nature to inspire designs that utilize one one-hundreth of the resource and energy inputs regular production would employ. Their showcase building, The Core, is a design based on plant growth: It has a central trunk and a solar harvesting roof, the roof is a spectacular design incorporating Fibonacci spirals, a mathematical pattern found in many plants including sunflowers, pine cones and shells. Not only does The Core look awesome, it is sustainable too, with rainwater tanks, automatic taps, roof filtration, photovoltaic panels, walls built from recycled newspapers, passive heating, and of course the spectacular gardens for which the Eden Project is a national tourist attraction. (credit:Getty)
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The ABLE project, based in the U.K. is inspired by ecological systems where living organisms or their waste provide food for others in the ecosystem. These concepts have been adapted to industrial waste processing, using grasses and creating artificial soil filtration with waste glass and plastic tubing. They use the project to train disadvantaged youth in horticulture and aquaculture, while at the same time reusing waste and delivering biodiversity and environmental benefits.If you find this idea fascinating, check out AskNature.org which challenges students and designers to embrace natural principles to inspire their work. As Albert Einstein put it, "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better". Wouldn't this planet be such an amazing place if we all tried to spend more time being inspired by nature, rather than exploiting it? (credit:Getty File)
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