Your questions, good as they are, are impossible to answer in a simple internet post. May I recommend two books that might be helpful? They are “Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory “ by Edward Larson and “The Making of the Fittest” by Sean Carroll. Good places to start.
I believe in God, I beleive in creation, but I do not disbelieve in evolution. While I don't completely buy into the ID theory, I do believe that a God who is powerful enough to create, would also give us the gift of being able to adapt and overcome.
I am one who looks at the beauty of nature around me and comes to the conclusion that things are a bit too ordered to have been random.
There is a lot of structure to things, there is also a lot of chaos. What I like to see is the structured order of things reacting to chaos. My favorite example is the way nature came back from the devastation of Mt. Saint Helens.