The Rationalizing of Genesis

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I was reading a book and in it it talked about the rationalization of Genesis.
As late as the spring of 1789 Pauline, a dull but earnest girl, was corresponding at length with him [John Frederick Simon] over the pssibility of rationalizing the early chapters of ‘Genesis’, a task well within the compass of his essentially Voltairian philosophy.(Pg. 11)
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(Palmer, Alan. Metternich councillor of Europe Weidenfeld and Nicolson Publishing Co. 1972)

What is the Voltairian veiw of the early chapters of Geneis (which I assume are from Creation to Noah or thereabouts)? How do they contrast to the teachings of the Catholic Church?
 
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