In Search of the Creator, 4th Edition

The essays also serve to audition a positive view of how and why we came to our place in this universe. It is the story of the longest project ever undertaken:
Phase 1
During the first 9.3 billion years of the universe, planet Earth and other objects of the cosmos evolved from gases released by the Big Bang. For planet Earth, the end product of the first phase was a unique planet carrying an enormous payload of complicated resources, e.g., materials, energy sources, and forces extraordinary. ...