Hugh Ross, an astronomer and founder of Reason To Believe, asserts in his book, Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home, that "[P]revious to 600 million years ago it was impossible for the physical and chemical environment of Earth at that time to support animals' existence."
We live in a universe so vast that even Stephen Hawkings thought that it seem such a waste of material. This cosmic massiveness, Ross argues, was necessary for the early formation of the earth: if the cosmos was less massive, no elements as heavy as carbon or heavier could have formed and if it was just slightly more massive only elements as heavy as iron or heavier would have. We also live in a very old—by our standard—universe: 9 billion years before the "construction" of the earth to make it suitable for life could begin. It had taken several generations of powerful nuclear explosions amongst the stars for sufficient amounts of the elements necessary for life to form and accumulate. In particular what was also needed was for those elements to move to the right place before biogenesis could begin. The Earth was, from the astronomical perspective, tobu wabohu for a very long time indeed.
Hugh Ross, Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017.