Stephen King Quotes

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

I really believe that God has a purpose for everything that I do.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.