Anthropic constants are the 122 highly precise, interdependent environmental conditions that are very narrowly tuned to make life on Earth possible. The exact thickness of the Earth's crust is one such constant: any thicker and too much oxygen would be transferred to the crust to support life; any thinner and volcanic and tectonic activity would make life impossible. Other examples include the speed of light, atmospheric transparency, and moon-earth gravitational interaction. Astrophysicist Hugh Ross has calculated the probability that all of these constants would happen to exist for any planet in the universe, and the odds are 1 in 10^138 power {1 with 138 zeroes after it}. To put those chances in perspective, scientists estimate that there are only 10^70 atoms in the entire universe.Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek
Sometimes reading an atheist's argument can make you weigh the evidence in favor of God's existence. Richard Dawkins tries to deal with the argument you just quoted in his book The God Delusion. He resorts to positing an interpretation of quantum mechanics that posits trillions of multiple universes where we just happen to live in one of those universes that is suitable for life. I reason that if you must resort to positing trillions of multiple universes to avoid the argument from God's design, it's much simpler to just believe in God
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