You look at this wrong. Imagine your on the 10th floor of a burning building and the only way out is to jump out the window into the net the firemen hold. Is it the firemen's fault you didn't jump and were burnt to a crisp.
Your ignoring that God has no need. We do.
And the Bible address the topic rather frequently. But like I said. Until you have faith you will never see it.
As Truthseeker9 said it's not about what God needs but what man needs. Along with faith, worship helps to free the mind and open doors and perceptions that cannot be experienced otherwise.
I think he was using the similarity of the conditions of the extinction event as a corollary to the conditions shortly after creation.
Whether they know it or not this is all part of something called the Canopy theory put forth by Isaac Vail in 1874. It's generally discredited.
The canopy theory has as it's beginning the world of Genesis1. It's an illegitimate child of replacement theology. There's a problem in the allogorizing of where the sun, the moon and the stars are placed. A littoral interpretation places them in the atmosphere.