Why is it unlikely for stable life to develop over the first few hundred million years of Earth's history

In simple words, there existed no living on Earth for the first few million years since the environment was unsuitable for life. The original atmosphere of the Earth had a lot of water vapor but practically little oxygen. Volcanic activity blasted substances into the atmosphere such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and water vapor, but no pure oxygenation.

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