2/ Primordial matter-energy probably comprised a highly energized dense plasma that lost energy (i.e. it cooled) as it expanded and matter condensed out. As it did so, matter became increasingly complex.
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3/ At the macro scale of the observable universe the chaotic plasma cooled to form a hierarchy of rotating structures of solar systems, galaxies, galactic clusters, superclusters, and sheets of superclusters separated by voids that together constitute a complex whole.
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4/ At the microscopic scale fundamental particles of matter combined to form more complex nuclei of hydrogen that successively complexified by combining to form the nuclei of some 95 naturally occurring elements.
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5/ On the surface of one of the aggregations of matter, planet Earth, which formed over the course of some 4+ billion years ago from the combination of material debris orbiting the newly ignited Sun, life emerged.
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6/ Inanimate molecules combined to form the complexity, the size, the changing structures, and the functioning of the simplest possible independent lifeforms.
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7/ Although the boundary is blurred, the emergence of life marks a change of kind, not simply degree, from inanimate matter.
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