[tortoise]

Maybe it's because if you took all the carbon in the universe and put on the face of the earth, allowed it to chemically react at the most rapid rate possible, and left it for a billion years, the odds of creating just one functional protein molecule would be one chance in 10 to the 60th power?

The above statement demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of basic organic chemistry. HINT: If what you are saying was true, commercial chemical synthesis wouldn't be possible.

[Rockitz]

And how many commercial chemical synthesis operations were around a billion years ago with their convenient building blocks all mixed together in the right proportions with the right catalysts at the right pressure and temperature and ready to react? Get real!