i take the attitude that the Bible was written for the audience of its time.
“God created Adam” was more easily understood than “God created a small creature too small to see and over the course of 2 billion years that creature and its progeny changed every generation until eventually human beings came into existence. Adam was the very first human being”.
to me it doesn’t matter which is true. they are both valid explanations to their audiences and both require faith.
atheists and secular humanists are really pushing scientism, which is the belief that science can explain everything. but this belief will eventually fail because some questions are beyond the scope of what science can test. i can put the raw materials for life in a petry dish and set it outside in a thunderstorm every day for a billion years, but there is no guarantee that life will eventually spring forth from it. that question (how did life begin?) is beyond the scope of what scientism can answer. there are other such questions (does the universe have a beginning? if so, who/what created the universe? etc.). smart people accept this essential truth.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” - Hamlet
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Another factor is that evolution requires death. This seems needlessly cruel to me, if sin hadn't happened.
As in the seven days of creation, followed later in scripture by "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (2 Peter 3:8) To the audience of the time, millions, billions and trillions were unfathomable, but thousands was sufficient to convey the message.