I didnt mean that there are several meanings, only that whatever meaning you go with is your preferred meaning, not Allah’s.
As in everything, whatever we make of life or Quran, or any book is limited to ourselves. You can try to avoid cherry picking, and you can decide to stick with the rulings of a given person/aalim on all matters. that would nevertheless still make the understanding you have of the verse, yours (or at best the Aalims).
I dont wish to make it tedious, I was just saying the choice you offer psyah to retract one of the two meanings is a false one. It could be that they are both valid interpretations, and there is no objective way of knowing which is the one intended by Allah.
I think my approach would be to take all the answers I get, reject any that conflict with my understanding of science, and not try to eliminate interpretations that ‘fit’ reality, since each of these could be correct.