Even without evolution suffering and death is a vital part of the food chain.
There was a whole lot of suffering and death documented in the Bible, some of which was completely a result of Man's fallen nature, but some of it was necessary for our own education and salvation.
Did the Israelites really have to spend 40 years wandering in the desert? Did that many Egyptians have to suffer and die before the Israelites were let go? Did all but the few who were on the Ark have to be drowned?
God's ways are above our understanding, but they seem to involve lots of suffering and death.
And I didn't even mention Christ's suffering and death on the cross.
The Bible specifically contradicts evolution. It says that God created everything very good, and that suffering and death did not enter the world until mankind sinned against God. The Bible claims degeneration from a pristine state, not steady improvement from an inferior state.