Leaving and old universe and evolution?
Old universe yes.
Macro-evolutionism is still as legless as it ever was. The supposedly impartial science is quite blind to the probability hill.
On Earth the text requires that all creatures created by Him as described were created before the woman was made. Likewise that there are two different modes by which they are created: beforehand when He calls them from the earth or the seas and after He says it’s not good for man to be alone, and these He fashions from the ground. That is all it requires. It makes no mention of other worlds, or the earth before Genesis 1:1.
As for what He was doing when He fashioned the exemplars that He presented to Adam, I would suggest that doing so is not separable from His saying he should not be alone. That in presenting them to him, he didn’t see any of these as having a nature that was the helper that The Lord had spoken of ... so when he saw her: he got it.
Essentially it might be looked at as an object lesion, were He teaches him to look to her as his equal and partner, not to them (the animals), and also to look to Himself who provided for a need that Adam seems to have not even been aware of till she was standing before him.