I'm glad you chose to address this topic because this is one of my weak points when debating a theist.
In the past, whenever I hear an atheist respond to the fine-tuning argument, he says something along the lines of, "Well of course you think the universe is fine tuned because you're hear to observe it". To tell the truth, I never really understood this rebuttal. However, now that you've explained it, the rebuttal makes a bit more sense. You know how sometimes your mind gets tangled up with the simple things? Erm, nevermind, I need clarification please:
Are you saying that if we (all 6 billion+ of us) weren't here, then an outside observer (outside of this universe ?) , let's call him Bob, would look at our universe and say "That universe is not fine-tuned." Therefore for us to say that the universe is fine tuned is just as plausible as Bob's saying that the universe is not fine tuned. I'm kinda lost here.
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