Only if you are willing to call a billion years of evolutionary selection a "simple ruleset"
That means whatever evolution created, whether it's wings or brains, however complex it looks now, must be fundamentally simple enough it could be reached by iterating in tiny steps that were useful in isolation. It constrains the space of designs reachable by evolution considerably.
Not true. Learn some genomics before trying to explain evolution.
Does the time matter? A ruleset doesn't change with time.
If you're still unconvinced, get a degree in physics. I'm not sure how you could get through that and still not believe that complexity rises from simplicity and how you end up getting drops in that complexity, which we call emergence, before becoming more complex than before.
But you really do seem to be trying hard to miss the point entirely. Life has actually nothing to do with what I said did it. And I can assure you, by nature of being one, that physicists are certain that nature follows simple rules, even if we don't know them.
We are also absolutely confident in that complexity rises out of simplicity. Go look at anything like fractals, chaos theory, perturbation theory, or you should have run into at least bifurcation diagrams in your differential equations course. If you haven't taken diff eq, then well.... perhaps the problem is that your confidence in your result is stronger than your expertise. If not, well... make a real argument because I'm not going to hold your hand through this any longer.
