The Fine-Tuned Universe - a 'Reason to Believe' that Atheists Hear Wrong (on Purpose?)

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Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta presents several of the "reasons to believe" he hears from theists trying to get him to believe in 'Hank Williams Jr. in the Sky.' And I want to discuss each reason individually. One (brought up at https://youtu.be/RNfhvw1KE3A?list=PL3tF060u39sG8opT4Xcc-N06Jg6ktpvuN&t=509 this point in the video) is "The Universe is Fine-Tuned"---essentially (the way Hemant understands it) everything exists the way it ought to be, so there must've been an intelligence that designed it. He then goes on 'disproving it' with Douglas Adams' puddle metaphor (a puddle of water fits perfectly in a hole, and thus assumes that the hole must've been designed to fit exactly). I think Hemant gets the fine-tuning wrong---the universe isn't fine-tuned 'before it exists.' It's fine-tuned BY ITS NEED TO EXIST (living things either adapt or cease to exist, non-living things ... either CHANGE or cease to exist; just like the water is FORCED to fit in the hole). I would say that God designed his creation to fine-tune itself!