If the observation selection effect renders fine-tuned constants expected given our existence, the fine-tuning inequality loses its evidential asymmetry favoring design over chance.

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Design (as an explanation)(as used in philosophy of religion and cosmology): The idea that the universe or its features were intentionally created or arranged by an intelligent being, rather than arising through natural processes.
Evidential asymmetry(as used in arguments about God and evil): An imbalance in how well different explanations account for the existence of evil—making one explanation seem stronger than another.
Fine-tuning (of constants)(as used in cosmology and philosophy of design): The observation that the basic numbers controlling how the universe works (like gravity's strength) seem to be set just right for stars, planets, and life to exist—change them even slightly and nothing like us could form.
Fine-tuning inequality(as used in arguments for intelligent design): An argument that compares how likely fine-tuning is if a designer intentionally set up the universe versus if it happened by pure chance, used to make design seem like a better explanation.

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