Several students have asked questions about reconciling the Torah's account of creation with the science of evolution. Instead of writing my own answer, I refer you to people who have said it much more knowledgeably and eloquently than I. A classic work is Challenge: Torah Views on Science and Its Problems edited by Aryeh Carmell and Cyril Domb, and published by Feldheim. Note the plural "views" in its title. Anyone who tells you he has the one-and-only Torah-true view on any subject probably hasn't learned all the sources. A more recent work is The Challenge of Creation by Natan Slifkin. He also goes through many different approaches to this important question. The work of Gerald Schroeder, a cosmologist, and Nathan Aviezer, a biologist, is also helpful but pretty heavy on the science.
May you always create new worlds for yourselves as your learning evolves.
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