The Bible is an eye witness record, that is scientifically proven to be such. It goes to back to the Beginning, which was less than 7,000 years ago.
You are not up to date on the newest changes to your "timeless" story.
The pope has admitted the big bang happened, and now claims evolution is real but guided by a sky fairy.
The Pope is an earthly king who wants to improve his earthly kingdom. He might say just about anything if it helps his kingdom to grow. What he says doesn't necessarily have anything to do with reality. You can tell this by looking at the history of the papacy, and seeing how wrong and "fickle" the various popes were over the last thousand years.
