帮我把一段电影翻译一下，只要写出原英文内容

第一段：
From space, it seems an abstraction a magician's trickon a darkened stage.
And from this distance one might never imagine...
that it is alive.
It first appeared in the sea almost four billion years ago...
in the form of single-celled life.
In an explosion of life spanning millions of years,
nature's first multicellular organisms began to multiply.
And then it stopped.
Four hundred and forty million years ago,
a great mass extinction would kill off...
nearly every species on the planet,
leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty.
Slowly, plants began to evolve,
then insects,
only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth.
The cycle repeated again and again.
Reptiles emerging independent of the sea,
only to be killed off.
Then dinosaurs struggling to life...
along with the first birds,
fish and flowering plants.
Their decimations-- Earth&