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How do you approach the first few chapters of the book of Genesis? Do you look at them with a presumption that they are nothing more than fables? Do you try to figuire out a way to squeeze (still unproven) scientific theories into them? Or do you look at them as accurate (whether or not you understand them) and submit to them as the Word of God?
I know there are many people who have no problem with the idea that God inspired Moses to write words that were inaccurate because the Hebrews did not yet understand science. Yet, it was not just the ancients who did not understand science, but the majority of those living in the history of the world. Modern scientific claims are just that: modern. They are the ideas of a number of people who lived very recently. The chronological snobbery of moderns is a bit revolting when you stand back and look at it for what it is.
I am still waiting for someone (anyone) to make an explanation as to why God would allow His inerrant Scriptures to contain numerous statements that caused a grave misunderstanding about how He created the world, and thus deceived the vast majority of the faithful for millennia. Worse yet, I am still waiting for an explanation as to how it was that the (so called) accurate interpretation of the first few chapters of Genesis was given to us by atheists. How does any Catholic think that this right?
Either we approach God's word with the humble heart that allows it to say what it says, and we wait until we understand it, or we approach it with pride, letting pagans tell us what to beieve. Which will God be pleased with on Judgment Day?