CHAPTER 1 1 a At the beginning there was nothing but a big b ball of gases.

2 For a long time it just sat there in the c nothingness, getting hotter and hotter.

3 d Then it e exploded.

4 f The explosion created the stars, which were burning bubbles of the first big ball of gases.

5 The g stars threw out chunks of debris that cooled and became planets.

6 The planets spun h round and became round.



CHAPTER 2 1 In a remote and insignificant sector of the i universe, one j planet fell into an orbit around its star that k by accident made its surface conducive to the molecular formations known as l amino acids.

2 Neither so close to their m planet's star as to be incinerated, nor so far from it as to be frozen, the acids survived,

3 n And proceeded to combine into new molecules of a complexity advanced enough to permit change and growth,

4 And o meiosis, and the development of certain other transient characteristics of a generic nature classifiable as p life.



CHAPTER 3 1 Changing and growing and reproducing in response to the q random stimuli of the planet's chemistry, r life thrived and multiplied,

a. Vin.1.1-25

b. Ed.28.6

Chuk.2.3-4

c. Hall.6.10

d. Lies.6.11

e. Al.2.11

f. Wil.19.1

g. Psay.5U.4

h. Exp.9.13

Chuk.7.3

i. Psay.5U.1-2

j. Ed.60.15

k. Wil.19.4

l. Chuk.10.4-10

m. Vin.3.1-2

n. Wil.16.19-20

o. Ed.60.17

p. Carl.3.8

q. Drex.6.4

r. Chuk.11.2-6

s. Chuk.11.8-10

t. Wil.19.5

u. Chuk.11.7

Mawr.22.22

v. Chuk.19.14

w. Ned.6.24

x. Chuk.12.1-7

y. Grk.6.23

z. Hall.6.9

aa. Psom.24.3-4

bb. Wil.12.14

2 s And spread from the hospitable environment of liquid oxygenated hydrogen where it began to the more challenging environment of the planet's solid mineral masses.

3 t The new environment stimulated further molecular changes that enabled living organisms to increase dramatically in size and complexity.

4 u The organisms grew bigger and bigger,

5 v And then much much bigger,

6 And even bigger than that, until some of the many life-forms on the planet's surface were so enormous as to be w dinosaurs.



CHAPTER 4 1 x The dinosaurs were gigantic scaly beasts with infinitely y small brains and infinitely large appetites, both for plants and for each other.

2 z Created by numerous accidents of evolution, the dinosaurs managed to become extinct, not by accident, but by their own stupidity.

3 aa The dinosaurs ate all of the plants in their environment and soon starved stupidly to death.

4 bb When the dinosaurs became extinct, other smaller life-forms became dominant on the planet's surface.

