[Robert A Cook PE]

Welllllll, that depends on how the Bible is interpreted.

Catholic teaching holds that it is divinely inspired, absolute Truth in matters of Faith and morals, but composed of many different forms of literature: Songs, poems, parables, stories, histories and tales, lists of Kings and judges, genealogies, laws, eyewitness accounts, letters, etc.

The story of Genesis is one of many stories telling how and why and what God created. Thus, in the Catholic teaching, I do not need to explain what is meant by the "morning and evening of ..." but rather just let the story reveal the glory that God created. It (genesis) does not need to mention the details of the story of creation, the Book merely reveals that creation happened - and now, finally, science has evolved to the point of being able to tell us the same thing. (It's about time they caught up.)

It says, for example, that life was formed from the earth: If God chose to do that by manipulating molecules and atoms, it's rather easier to believe that than that random lightning strikes somehow created life.

[GourmetDan]

"The story of Genesis is one of many stories telling how and why and what God created. Thus, in the Catholic teaching, I do not need to explain what is meant by the "morning and evening of ..." but rather just let the story reveal the glory that God created. It (genesis) does not need to mention the details of the story of creation, the Book merely reveals that creation happened - and now, finally, science has evolved to the point of being able to tell us the same thing."

Do Catholics think God couldn't tell us what he really did but had to tell us a lie so that we would believe him?

"It says, for example, that life was formed from the earth: If God chose to do that by manipulating molecules and atoms, it's rather easier to believe that than that random lightning strikes somehow created life."

The Book says that he created animals to reproduce after their kind. Man says that isn't how it happened. The Book says God created the sun/moon one day after the plants. Man says that isn't how it happened. The Book says that woman came from man. Man says that isn't how it happened.

"(It's about time they caught up.)"

Have they?