This is why evolution is just along for the ride.
Agreed.
A basic definition for evolution that I've developed is: Evolution is the side effects of life doing what life does. No special processes, no special forces. Just life carrying on and going about its business.
How life started has no effect on the matter. Evolution is what life does after having gotten started. Same thing if all life were supernaturally created and same thing if life developed through purely natural processes with absolutely no supernatural influences and same thing if life developed through purely natural processes set up and influenced by the supernatural. If doesn't matter how life got started; as soon as that happened life started evolving.
So to understand how evolution works, first understand how life works.