You're assuming the patent office is competent and rewards genuine innovation. My monitor has rounded corners. So does my keyboard. Parts of my tower are rounded. It's a stupid patent. Having pointy edges on a mobile devices is a really bad idea and the obvious thing is to round them so they don't hurt.

Physical and spiritual death (not cell death which the ancients wouldn't even know about) is the result of sin. There was no sin prior to the fall. In the genesis account God sees that what he created was good on each day. Evolution through natural selection involves competition and killing. You can't have evolution without something dying.

Doublethink.

Yes, they are. The metaphorical interpretation of the creation story still is incompatible with evolution. You have to explain why God would say death, which is necessary for evolution, is "good."