Hasn't modern science already shown Genesis to be wrong?

🔥The question: “If I accept the science of the universe and of life, am I giving up faith in creation?”

🛡️The Church's answer: Genesis 1–3 teaches the fundamental truths that God is the Creator of all things, that creation is good, that the human person has dignity as the image of God, and that sin broke that relationship. It was not written so that its ancient symbolic and literary expression would be read like a modern scientific paper. Science that studies the age of the universe and the processes of life is not in principle in conflict with faith in creation.

A further note — ask what the text actually claims

The creation accounts in Genesis use ancient repetition, symbol, and theological structure to say who created the world and what creation and the human person are. This explanation is not an attempt to file science and faith into two compartments with nothing to do with each other. It means that you first have to establish whether Genesis is a text that intends to teach modern dating and physical processes at all, before you can judge whether it really makes a claim that conflicts with science.

🧐If they press further: “So Genesis isn't factual?” — “Fact” does not mean scientific figures alone. Parable and poetry can convey real truth about human beings and the world. Asking precisely what a text claims does not make the Bible lighter; it respects it more.

✨In one sentence: “Genesis isn't a science textbook — it teaches who created the world and who the human person is. Science studies how creation unfolded.”