We don't need sunlight to create life. We can create a world of all chemolithotrophic organisms.
Imagine humans eating dirt for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Upon creating "humans" should the gods bestow a gift upon the first "human?" or will the gods create a variety of sentient humanoid beings to populate their world?

Edit: I am in agreement with Artis. While he cannot directly create life outright, nor animals (which technically protists are.), using his powers over chaos, probabilities and disorder can create (un)natural variation among the population. With such variation it would be up to either the science of natural selection or perhaps the God of Life to determine which creatures are allowed to continue to live.