How do you respond to the fact that Genesis 1 disagrees with the teachings of modern science?

Answer 1

I respond by believing, in faith, what God says:

Hebrews 11:3 It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by God's word, so that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.

The teachings of modern science do not consider a spiritual world view in their answers.

Answer 2

To this day we could not respond to this better than did the early Christian Church Father, Origen. In On First Principles, he said:

Now what man of intelligence will believe that the first and the second and the third day, and the evening and the morning existed without the sun and moon and stars? And that the first day if we may so call it, was even without a heaven? And who is so silly as to believe that God, after the manner of a farmer, "planted a paradise eastward in Eden", and set in it a visible and palpable "tree of life", of such a sort that anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain life: and again that one could partake of "good and evil" by masticating the fruit taken from the tree of that name? And when God is said to "walk in the paradise in the cool of the day" and Adam to hide himself behind a tree, I do not think anyone will doubt that these are figurative expressions which indicate certain mysteries through a semblance of history and not through actual events.

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Answer 3

There's plenty of evidence for Creation and against Evolution, but that isn't what the scientists and schools choose to publicize. See:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

Seeing God's wisdom

Answer 4

The disagreement only occurs if you take Genesis 1 as a literal roadmap for how God created the world. If you see the phrasing in Genesis 1 as figurative and embedded with a deeper spiritual meaning about how to create order from chaos or the method of testing and analysis or of God's love for humanity, then there is no contradiction. The science explains the "how", but can never explain the "why". The Bible explains the "why".