Also, which version of Creation do you favor ... the one where animals came before humans or the one where they came after?
They don't contradict. Perfectly consistent, if you read it carefully. In Genesis, chapter one, is recounted that God commanded the earth to bring forth all living creatures, thereby creating them himself, because he also created the earth, and this before breathing a soul into Adam whom he made after the beasts, fish, fowl, etc.
Then, in chapter two, we have an account of the events in Eden. Separate story. One event in Eden is when God brought to Adam all the beasts for him to name. What confused you was where it says, "And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth and all the fowls of the air ... etc." Notice the past tense, "having formed." It didn't say that God formed them after Adam came to be. It referenced having formed them, i.e., in the past. Otherwise it would have said, "Then the Lord formed the beasts and fowl, etc." But that's not what it said. It was a reference to what God had previously done.
