Hi, Jon! Welcome!
You wrote
How about the account in genesis which puts the order of creation as plants-birds-aquatic animals-land animals-man? That fits with the fossil evidence quite well.
Whose fossil record do you claim this order "fits with?" It's not remotely close to any order that palaeontologists have proposed in the last 180 years or so.
This is, in fact, a stunningly good example of reality disagreeing with Genesis.
El sueo de la razn produce monstruos. - Francisco Goya