Even secular people generally know something of the accounts of creation in Genesis 1-2. Whenever people hear the phrase, “In ...

The Catholic Church continues to teach ... making them male and female (Genesis 1:27). In the next verse, the Bible reads, "God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth ...

For Catholics, rather than being a literal explanation for the origin of life, Genesis 1 teaches key information about God’s nature. God made the world how he wanted it to be, and he is omnipotent.