The Bible uses a great deal of symbolism, and the creation accounts clearly are just that. To read it as a history actually misses the beauty of the symbolism that's involved.
In Judaism, we throughout our written history have used metaphors, allegories, parables, and other literary techniques, much like you'll find in your book of Revelations. Based on what we now know about how both our universe and humanity evolved, it makes not one iota of sense to deal with the genesis accounts as either literal history or science.
We pretty much know that the creation accounts involved us taking a Babylonian narrative, but then adjusting it to reflect our own teachings. Why are we pretty certain this happened? Because in northern Israel was found a Babylonian tablet that predates the writing of Genesis, which does tell us that we were familiar with the Babylonian narrative before we wrote ours.
I would suggest that God is not likely to judge us on having politically-correct beliefs but more likely on our character. The ToE does not eliminate God from consideration, and if anyone is teaching you that it does, then they're either terribly misinformed or are lying.
BTW, "day" in Hebrew is "yom", and even though it means "day" most of them time, sometimes it's used to stand for an indefinite length of time, such as "a thousand years is but a day in the eyes of God".
