Dozy,
The authors are banking on two things with that book. The first is that the numbers are so huge that it is just going to be too initimidating to dispute, and that their readers are not going to have the credentials, education, and capacity to logically combat the figures and information that they are spitting out, and so you swallow it.
First things first, you mention the evolution of the universe. How does that relate to God? And particularly, how does that relate to biological evolution which is where religion and science have unfortunately and inappropriately found themselves at a crossroads? If you understood evolution at all you would recognize that that could just as easily be the method that God used to create, and he just didnt specifically create all the atrocities we see through the universe, particularly on Earth. So agreeing or disagreeing with evolution does not really back your argument one way or another.
And also, the numbers that you just regurgitated, they are missing two important variables. First, take the one billion years and increase it to ten. And then take the mass of all the carbon on all the planets approximately 1/3 to 5 times the size of the Earth, that are in the universe, and factor that into your equations. The reason I say that is this. Abiogenisis, which is what you are talking about, doesnt need to happen on each planet specifically. It only needed to happen once in the universe, which as I am sure you can understand, severly alters your test environment and subsequent results. In fact, using the mathematics that you are using, basic and non influenced abiogenesis becomes almost a certainty.
Do you cook? Have you ever heard of cross contamination? Then certainly you have experienced it and probably taken steps to combat it. Here's a thought for you. Mars might be a lifeless rock right now, but will it be after we go there? How about after we leave there? What about the anaerobic bacteria that thrive in an environment that lacks oxygen, and unfortunately almost completely covers everything we touch? There will certainly be bacteria on the surfaces of everything that we touch out there, because we will bring them with us, so when we leave them behind we will effectively be introducing life to that world if it does not already exist there. Would that make us their God? Now mathematically, especially when you consider the age of our sun right now, it is highly unlikely that anything special will ever happen to that bacteria which we will, without doubt, introduce to that planet when we go there, which we eventually will. But can you say that for the rest of the universe? Can you say that for our own Earth 3.5 billion years ago, when Earth was only a billion years old, but the rest of our universe was ten billion years old, and many stars had already burnt out and died?
Logically that might be a stretch and it could be a completely foreign thought for many, but for me it is far more realistic then believing that we were specially created by God and then he let that creation, which he put some much time and effort into, go absolutely crazy and commit all the atrocities against itself and the co-created.
Just a thought...