It is often said that Genesis 1 is completely contradicted by Genesis 2. Right at the very beginning of the Bible the alleged discrepancies begin to be claimed, and this is very common. I suppose among the first people to cast serious doubt on the consistent record of Genesis 1 and 2 were theologians, that is to say unbelieving, liberal theologians, who produced different theories to the effect that Genesis 1 had one author, and Genesis 2 had quite a different author, and that they were conflicting accounts. There are also many popular attacks on the Book of Genesis beginning in these very foundational chapters to cast doubt on the Bible. You will find these kinds of things manage to find their way to the top of the search engines, and if people were to google Genesis, or Adam or Eve, or anything like that, among the first things they would be referred to are various articles just expressing these ideas. More often than not they are written by people who don’t seem to know their Bibles, don’t understand what they are reading, and have never looked at the narrative carefully. That is one of the iniquities of the internet – you may not have a clue what you are doing but you can get to the top of the search engine pages quite easily, and certainly on a topic like this you may be a very popular port of call for many sceptical people. But there is no contradiction between the first two chapters of Genesis. They are by one author, they are presented as such, they are presented as historical. It should be obvious that Genesis 1 presents the ordered stages which show God working as a craftsman. He did not need six days to create. He could have created everything in a fraction of a second, but he chose to create over six days to give a demonstration of him working as a craftsman, making something carefully and in stages in preparation for the principal element of creation, man and woman, mankind. They are the pinnacle of the entire creation. It is just as miraculous to create all things in six days as to create them in a fraction of a second, but God is doing this to demonstrate his intention, his building up to man, stage by stage, preparing his home, his habitat: he is the objective. Genesis 2 focuses on the creation of man in more details, adding highly important information about the pre-fall condition of the earth, man in his original state of innocence, the covenant of works between God and man, the test given to the human race in the person of Adam, and the wonderful institution of marriage between man and woman. Chapter two isn't speaking about the order at all. It's emphasizing certain things to make another point.