I do not sit in judgment of the Pope's standing. But in Genesis 1:26 says And God said, "Let *US* make man in *Our* image, after *Our* likeness:......
Who is this "Us* and this *Our* that man was made in the image of? This is not the same WORDs used in Genesis 2:7. And it is not even on the same 'day', which Peter says that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. So these 'days' of creation were thousands of years apart. Now surely the WORD is instructive regarding the unsettled claimed process that man in flesh have divined.