“we should try to understand God’s word not evolution”
You, of course, are blessed to have this believe. I am equally blessed to believe HIS word is evolution. For GOD to be literal would be cruel, IMHO.
I know to some people when you say evolution, it means to them that you don’t believe in God. I find this belief strange because to my way of thinking (and possibly yours) evolution is Gods way of creating. My God is very powerful and very intelligent and figured this all out and set it into motion and he watches over the process. Nothing is an accident that came from pond scum.
I am blessed and I am glad that you are too. God is never cruel. His Word tells us what happened and we did not evolve. We are as He made us. You will also find that His word tells us that the world is very ancient, not the few thousand years many churches teach. I agree with Him and science in that the world is millions or billions of years old. He tells us that in Gen. 1:1-2.