Starting or anything arising from absolute nothingness contradicts logic, therefore it must contradict science. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding of what absolute nothingness is. A fluctuation in a quantum vacuum is not nothingness and even God can't work with nothingness.
Physical reality is form and function, it is not an absolute state of perfection. The eye serves its purpose. There is a nerve in the neck of the giraffe that passes through a hole in the bone and as the giraffe neck evolved that nerve could not detach and reattach so as to keep its journey short. That nerve travels down to the shoulders and back to the base of the skull. That is a clear indicator of evolution, but the animal functions exactly as a giraffe is meant to function. Evolution does not challenge the hypothesis of God. Physical realities purpose is to produce a creature capable of high degrees of consciousness with the ability to develop a spiritual capacity.
Evolution is part of a raft of processes to develop a primal point of rudimentary life all the way to becoming a consciousness that can recognise the system that enabled it in the first place.
As for infinite regression of evolution, we know we can not regress evolution infinitely. We know there is a starting point because of the paradox situation. Therefore there must be an uncreated state from which that which we know as our reality begins.
God, whatever it may be is preexisting, there must be the uncreated state for the created to exist otherwise we have a self causing system that imposes order, laws, limits, etc upon itself before it exists, another paradox.
