I’m leaning more and more towards a fully gifted creation. I think God is so wise that when he first began "this" universe that he endowed it with tremendous organization potentiality, that would not require him to step in and guide it or help it along to produce intelligent life.
Look at how scientist tell us all the elements are made in the stars, though nuclear fusion suns not only give us light and heat but also produce more complicated elements. Physicists tell us of wonderful self organization on the atomic and subatomic level. The theory of Chaos is changing our idea of what is truly chaotic, we now know what used to be considered chaotic manifest tremendous order, but at a higher level than observable naturally, but thanks to computers we are in the last couple of decades getting to see it.
I think Gensis1 and 2 are inspired of God, but not in the way most fundys do. It seems to me, that perhaps God inspired someone with a vision of the creative process, and that person taught it to his family and friends in the language and concepts he knew, it was simple because his culture was simple; express in simple terms, to a culture that had a very limited understanding of things we now take as a matter of fact. If this vision was given before writing was invented then it was passed on to other to memorize and they in turn taught it to their sons and daughters whom they in turn memorized. Then latter perhaps through Moses or some one else it became part of the Scriptures. I think many Christians make a big mistake in how they interpret the first two chapters in Genesis, for they don’t take the above into account and expect it to be too literal. All the Scriptures have parts in it that are poems, stories, and metaphors, that were written in the style of the culture at that time, it was common to say things a certain way, that today if taken literally will lead us to a wrong understanding because our culture is vastly different.
I therefore see nothing in the Genesis account that would rule out a Fully Gifted Creation that would not require God to bridge the gaps (God of the gaps) to help matter become intelligent life. I think it is reasonable for Christians to conclude also that this universe is teaming with life of much more variety than exist here on Earth.