Let me elaborate slightly. The first would seem impossible to prevent. Given life, evolution can’t be avoided. So this leads nowhere.
The second would seem impossible to implement, assuming we’re saying that modern species, e.g. Homo sapiens, were programmed into the first cell. So that leads nowhere too.
We are left with one further possibility, the so-called pool shot, in which the initial conditions were so carefully set up that, like the perfect break in pool, all the balls end up in pockets in the right order. In terms of life, this means that the conditions of the universe at the time of the first life were adjusted so the occurrence of each subsequent mutation was aligned just so. In a Newtonian universe, that would be possible. In a quantum mechanical universe, I don’t think it’s even theoretically possible. It would require an ability equivalent to knowing exactly when a given nucleus of K40 would spontaneously decay.