I hear what you're saying, and your interpretation is more plausible. In fact it is an approach to reconciling creationism and scientific progress that's often

I hear what you're saying, and your interpretation is more plausible. In fact it is an approach to reconciling creationism and scientific progress that's often employed, even recently by the Pope himself. However that is not how they were casting it. They were presenting the literalist more facile argument.