Wayne
"Nothing riles me faster than somebody attributing fundamentalist thought processes to me"
No, you don't fit the bill for fundamentalism, and I hope your adrenalin dissipated without further ado. Take it easy.
Incidentally, this caught my eye:
"it's already in need of fine tuning while he built it."
Meaning, I suppose, that he was unable to get it quite right with his first shot.
"I really don't understand the response I've gotten to pointing out that the anthropic principal applies to the question of why it took so long. It took that long because that's how long it had to take for us to sit here asking why it took that amount of time. Had it taken some other amount of time then we'd be sitting here asking why it took that other amount of time."
Try this:
What you are saying is that the laws of physics being such as they are, the events since the Big Bang necessarily took the time that they did. No scientist can argue against that. Now, since God, according to your view, chose those laws of physics, the time taken is precisely as He intended.
Is that accurate?
