How do we answer the claimed contradiction between the order of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2?

There is not going to be a contradiction. People say Genesis 2 has man made before the plants while Genesis 1 has the plants before man. But imagine God writing Scripture through Moses and making such an obvious, incontrovertible error that one page contradicts the next; if that were true I would not bother turning the page to Genesis 3. If one thing can be proven an actual error, not a textual or contextual difficulty, do not read the rest of it. That is why I have never stopped reading it: there are no errors. It is all or nothing, and I hold God to it. The resolution is this: God made new, special plants for the garden of Eden, where he was going to put Adam to till it. The plants of Genesis 1 are the general variety, the shrubs and trees scattered all over the world that Adam would never see; but the garden plants are made special, after Adam, because they need special water, special cultivation, and tending, and they are where he would get his food, perfect food for the perfect family, never causing disease or a stomachache. We already know two special trees were put in the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Once you get into the story and trust the writer Moses, instead of assuming he was just copying Babylonian myths or that four anonymous authors wrote the Pentateuch, the difficulty disappears.