I'm not trying to defend a literal 6-day creation, just arguing that it is not incompatable with the facts which support evolution, once you postulate an all-powerful God.
Genesis 2 is a narrative, and would be less likely to spell out a worldwide sequence of events than Genesis 1.
Genesis 2 does spell out something very specific, though. Read the section I quoted once again. Humans were created before any plants were created. If you claim that it can be interpreted instead of accepted as literal truth, than I can claim the same of Genesis I. My suggest is interpret them both so that God created a universe in which evolution occurs. Not only will it free you to understand the scientific evidence and the theories it supports, but there will never be any scientific theory that can oppose your religious beliefs.
If you postulate an all-powerful God who creates evidence that the world is billions of years old, then regardless of how old it actually is, the only way you can hope to make scientific progress is by studying the earth as if it were billions of years old.