[Piers]

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Hume argued that there is no way to deductively prove that nature is ordered

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Can certainly agree with this.

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and therefore must be presupposed.

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This is where I would disagree. I can see no reason to make this assumption apart from as a mental exercise.

Intuitively it seems clear to me that the universe is not ordered (in your sense of ‘abides by physical laws/rules’), however it is also necessary to assume the universe is ordered in order for us to reason meaningfully about it.

So making an assumption of an ordered universe is a pragmatic pandering to our own limitations rather than a statement about how the universe really is.

Life just shows us how localised ordered patens can arise out of chaotic forces. Just looking at the fractural patens of chaos theory should illustrate my point.