Charles Townes was quite sympathetic to the idea of Intelligent Design.
Townes (19152015) was interviewed in 2005 in a UC Bekeley article:
Q: Should intelligent design be taught alongside Darwinian evolution in schools as religious legislators have decided in Pennsylvania and Kansas?
Townes: “I think its very unfortunate that this kind of discussion has come up. People are misusing the term intelligent design to think that everything is frozen by that one act of creation and that theres no evolution, no changes. Its totally illogical in my view. Intelligent design, as one sees it from a scientific point of view, seems to be quite real. This is a very special universe: its remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics werent just the way they are, we couldnt be here at all. The sun couldnt be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory, quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are for us to be here.”