The information conveyed in Gen 2 is that God made the animals out of the ground. It's not conveying when God made them. That was conveyed in Gen 1. Gen 2 is adding additional information.
"The literalism you espouse satisfies none of this and get hopelessly entangled in a web of deception"
Then why does God warn us in 2 Peter 3 that people would forget the flood and creation? And who are these people anyway. It looks to me from all the other signs that we are in or near the last days. Who are the people who forgot creation?
Evolution cherishes creation. I think you should forget the flood only to the extent it was not a global flood and the pagan myth does not make much sense from there.
As to the making out of the ground being done prior to the immediate need for a helpmate. No literal view of the passage could possibly come to that conclusion. Once you depart from your strict literalist and simple view of the Bible, you are stuck with much better options, like my enlightened view based on a literal interpretation from Hebrew.