Without an observer, is it possible that anything really happens at all? Certainly, it is theoretically possible that events happen without anyone there to see them, but in order for those events to exist as anything other than a concept, there must be an observer present.
This concept becomes highly important in our understanding of life, the universe, and everything. Human history exists as a result of observation by individuals, historians, and verbal and written records. Without those observers, without those records, there is no sure way of confirming that events happened or things existed away from human eyes. We can believe they did, but we cannot prove they have. This is the problem of Schrödinger's Cat: without the observer, the boxed cat is both alive and dead all at once. Until that box is opened, there is simply no way to know its contents.
Thus, there is no way to confirm that anything existed previous to the first human. In fact, for us, there simply is no history before that record begins. It is well and good to posit Ice Ages and animals for whom we have no records but leftover littered bones, but without observation, it is only conjecture.
Moving outward from that, it stands to reason that in order for humans to exist, they must be observed. Not just by each other, but by someone greater than all of us, for without that outside observer, there would be no way for the first human to come into being. That first human needs to be seen in order to exist long enough to see other humans, and thus to begin observing in turn.
In fact, if we presume the existence of a Divine Creator, and that Creator is always observing, it is possible for events to happen outside of human experience. Yet without that observing, seeing, knowing presence, humanity itself can neither observe or be observed.
Thus our very existence depends on the existence of a Divine Creator.
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