Interpretation...or better compromise of God's Word in order for our faith to have respectability amongst the 'intelligensia' of this world. That would be no different than the techniques the Church growth crowd uses to make the Church palatable amongst the unsaved.
I did say 'the plain meaning of God's Word' e.g. evening and morning, one day. (As a Christian, I must reject the 'millions/billions of years' scenario.)
Or,
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
(Rom 5:12)
How could there be an evolutionary cycle of graduated forms without sin, and thus the introduction of death by the first man Adam?
I do somewhat agree with you concerning witnessing to atheists, that evolution is not the way to go, but sometimes it helps to do a bit of preparatory work in removing the atheist's false foundations, (I prefer to show them the illogicalness of their position.) before confronting them with their moral dilemma.
Something I've learned about the atheistic worldview is that evolutionary origins is one of the main supporting pillars of their entire belief system. I don't set out to convert them over to creationism. Instead, my tactic is to shatter that one leg in order to begin destabilizing their belief system built up in their minds by forces they don't understand. Far too many youth in Australia have gone ahead and offed themselves because nobody destabilized their pillars of aimless, hopeless fatalism. Having shattered one of such pillars in the beliefs of a young student exchange girl from Australia some years ago, that renewed her interest in doing further exploration after she had given up and was contemplating offing herself like so many of her friends had done. Her name is Natalie. Once she realized that the hopelessness of evolutionary origins and us being mere products of chemicals and genetics, a ray of light broke through into her heart that she did not see before.
So, yes, there are those out there who have formulas that they follow for what "what to do's" and "what not to do's," but I prefer to seek the Lord for His wisdom in how to win some of the most difficult people to the Lord. If nothing else, I've torn down the stability they thought that they had in their world view so that maybe, just maybe, they too will begin their investigation once again rather than to settle only upon what they think they know that the enemy of our souls and an will use to push them to the decision point of suicide.
MM