Its been over 50 years since I read  'A Path Through Genesis' by Catholic Bible Scholar, Fr. Bruce Vawters. The  Church has been teaching us for years that God inspired the authors of the Genesis Creation stories to write them as 'myth' forms of writing.

I wonder how long it will take before we apply what we know Biblically to how we talk theologically. If 'Adam and Eve' and their 'sin' never existed in reality and are a 'myth' story, then we need to radically re-think our notions of 'original sin' and how we talk about it.

Officially, the Church agrees : The Creation stories of Genesis are not intended to be taken as 'factual'.

And if the Genesis authors could say "man is made in the image of God" it is only because they had first created a concept of God who was very much 'in the image of man'!