Charles Townes was quite sympathetic to the idea of Intelligent Design.
Townes (1915–2015) 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 it’s 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 there’s no evolution, no changes. It’s 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: it’s remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics weren’t just the way they are, we couldn’t be here at all. The sun couldn’t 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.”
Some postulate an infinite number of universes to live with that dilemma, which must send Occam spinning in his grave.
He was an interesting guy. I met him once at an American Philosophical Society meeting.