I hold to the opinion that religion is a valid example of evolution. Primitive man only saw what was within eyesight, the ground, the sky, and imagined the sky was an arch held up by mountains/the ground. Primitive man attempted to explain natural phenomena, and since their understanding of the universe was sparse, they used a lot of the “god of the gaps”, plugging in a deity whenever they could not explain any further.
The ancient Norse explanation for thunder is one good example. Any observer could hear thunder, and it was explained as the gods messing around in the sky. Now we know the scientific explanation, it was static friction, electricity, and plasma creating a sonic wave.
Ancient man belived that their god(s) lived nearby, on a mountain top, or in the sky, or somewhere. But as mankind pushed further and further into the universe, we learned that Mount Olympus was just a mountain. Some religions were exposed, some religions evolved, and told different stories to match the changing perception of this universe.
In today’s climate, science has pushed religion into making more and more desperate excuses, to where it is today, many define their god as the master of hide-and-seek.
But getting back to “existing outside of time and space”, that is a contradiction. If anything exists, time must act on it. And if there is time, it resides in a space.