Well thought out post.
We know that natural order, evolution or transmutation, if accepted as the reason alone for our existence was reversed it would lead to infinite regression. Infinite regression means we would never arrive in the, now, therefore a Creative Force, Enabling Force must exist.
This Creative Force which we will call, God, for convenience sake, must be outside of Creation, therefore it can not be conceived, understood or described by any sentient creature existing within Creation. God therefore is pure abstraction and likewise any exchange between Creator and Created requires an intermediary, a Christ like being. A hollow reed into which flows the sublime and out of which flows a symbolic, allegoric, metaphoric discourse that suggests a better path to enlighten one's soul and establish social cohesion. Even then such an exchange can only impart relative states of understanding and relative truths. All religion is relative truth and will ever be so.
As you have said, the fixed and ordered rules of, natural order, speak to an irrefutable truth, that something has established and is maintaining the foundations of, natural order.
The tricky part is to find real and valuable meaning in a subject of which there are no experts, no absolute truths, no understanding whatsoever of its Causation and only a faint possible understanding of its Purpose, that being to reveal religious teachings as a means of progressing the human soul and advancing our knowledge of this physical world, religion and science being the two sides of a single coin.
The only real point I challenge you on is regarding religions being unable to evolve and this may only be because I haven't understood you properly. Within a fixed religion, it starts from obscurity, arrives at its golden age, passes its used by date and then breaks into schisms and sects, each with their own dogmas and superstitions. Religion as a whole though, does in fact evolve.
If we accept that the first glimmers of religion or divine inspiration were the emergence of simple forms of abstract thought and then evolved through primitive forms of abstraction, earth phantasms and spirits, natural phenomina, sun worship, the worship of a pantheon of gods, the worship of a single god, all the way to the single God concepts of our major religions, then a significant evolution can be seen, each age having its specific needs and capacities.
I find the Baha'i Faith to be a significant leap forward in religious thinking, with clear and concise teachings that relate to the needs of the world we find ourselves in today. This may in fact be the most positive sign of religious evolution of all. Whether it becomes a dominant religion remains to be seen.
I do hope you continue to post your thoughts.
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