I do not sit in judgment of the Pope's standing. But in Genesis 1:26 says And God said, "Let *US* make man in *Our* image, after *Our* likeness:......
Who is this "Us* and this *Our* that man was made in the image of? This is not the same WORDs used in Genesis 2:7. And it is not even on the same 'day', which Peter says that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. So these 'days' of creation were thousands of years apart. Now surely the WORD is instructive regarding the unsettled claimed process that man in flesh have divined.
More from the same work by Benedict XVI:Thus every individual part derives its meaning from the whole, and the whole derives its meaning from its end -- from Christ. Hence we only interpret an individual text theologically correctly (as the Fathers of the church recognized and as the faith of the church in every age has recognized) when we see it as a way that is leading us ever forward, when we see in the text where this way is tending and what its inner direction is.