This page cuts quickly to the point I was making.
The cosmic microwave background radiation. This is a bath of photons with an exact thermal (blackbody) form, coming from all directions, now observed at a temperature 2.728 K (view graph). This implies that the Universe was at one time a dense, opaque, and very smooth gas, quite unlike today's view. Tiny fluctuations, a few parts per million, can be observed, as expected for the seeds of today's superclusters of galaxies.My point is that initial conditions were very simple, almost homogeneous. The continued expansion of the universe along with gravity, nuclear chemistry, and a lot of time got us from there to here. Not only life on earth represent, but everything that looks interesting and complex about the rest of the universe also grew from those early conditions.
Before you start banging on the second law of thermodynamics, there have already been screaming-match threads with lots of second-lawyering on just this point.
There are mathematical and thermodynamic senses of the words "order," "information," etc. which are misleading to the lay reader. A tiny, dense universe of hot quark-gluon plasma can be regarded as having more "information" and a lower state of entropy than a big universe with galaxies, Earthlings, Klingons, Romulans and tribbles. The second law is not violated by the history of the universe, but you have to be thinking of the location and velocity of every furiously flying quark and gluon inside the little-ball universe as an element of precisely ordered information to claim we've lost information since then.
Another way to think of it is that indeed the useable energy content (potential) of the universe has run down considerably because of the very gravitational collapse, nucleosynthesis, and chemosynthesis that created stars, planets, and people. You can trade unused potential energy for order (in the usual sense), turning potential energy into entropy in the process. That has happened with the universe.
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