I'd love to have someone in here with Jesuit training. Presumably, he would be in agreement with Galileo's approach to these things:
... I had the opportunity, with regard to Galileo, to draw attention to the need of a rigorous hermeneutic [hermeneutics: the study of the methodological principles of interpretation] for the correct interpretation of the inspired word. It is necessary to determine the proper sense of Scripture, while avoiding any unwarranted interpretations that make it say what it does not intend to say. In order to delineate the field of their own study, the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences ...Source: Message from the Pope, 1996.