[Go_Raiders]

Gravy has clumps too. If you would like to learn about the effect of gravity on unevenly dispersed matter, this is a good place to start reading: http://aether.lbl.gov/www/tour/elements/stellar/stellar_a.html

For the record, I don’t think God wastes his time supervising gravity, I think He has that set on auto-pilot.

[HandyDandy]

I have run across a lump or two in gravy, but if I found a clump I wouldn't eat it. I read your link. It starts off with: "Once the universe was created by the Big Bang, the only abundant elements present were hydrogen (H) and helium (He). These elements were not evenly distributed throughout space, and under the influence of gravity they began to "clump" to form more concentrated volumes.". Then later: "This is because the main force that produces conditions suitable for fusion to happen is gravity, and the mass of the star determines the force of gravity."

It pretty much reiterates what you said. But leads to more questions from me (a layman). For example, the second quote above: it seems to be ysaying that the gravity created by the mass was created by gravity. (And, by-the-way, why, after the Big Bang was matter unevenly dispersed?

Getting back to the topic, I suppose the "missing link" they are searching for could be said to be the manner in which "gravity causing matter to clump" eventually led to organic life (and, apparently, only on planet Earth).