I agree. And I have reconciled creation with science in my own very active faith. I have been vilified from both sides when trying to explain my own reconciliation of God's use of science for creation. But you seem to be of like mind. How long is one of God's days there in eternity? Why do we assume God wiggled his noes and blinked his eyes while shouting shazam? ....and it was good! Short and sweet....
Genesis = Stories/parables passed down through many generations until writing was invented and taught. People taught in parables as Jesus did dating way back. The bible is absolutely the word of God, as told by people that had to interpret that word thousands of years ago. How we interpret it today is a person to person mission. But Genesis answers why and how, whether it's figurative or literal to explain original sin/knowledge/consciousness etc. will continue to be left up to individual faith.
I'm not yet convinced God is done with day 6. I suppose he may rest on day 7. Day 8 just might be the start of Revelations.
What you have here is pretty much the modern Catholic take on evolution. It follows from the Augustinian process of Biblical analysis, as with the existence and nature of free will.
Being Catholic, this all was taught from childhood, we never had any problems with literal understandings of the Bible.
I can see where it can be a problem though, if one starts from a fundamentally different understanding of the Bible.