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[Fake Messiah]

The pope, the Vatican and most Catholics absofuckinglutely do not believe in evolution!
If evolution is guided by God then it's intelligent design aka, creationism.
That so many people are fooled by that cheap Vatican slight of language is mind bending. But then mebbie not, after all they are Catholics.

I went to Catholic schools.  We were told the creation story but were taught science when it came to evolution.  In the area where I grew up the population was over 90% Catholic but I was seemingly amongst Catholics who understood that some things in the Bible were simply stories.

Don't think all Catholics are what you have pictured.

Seems to me Catholics haven't set their opinion yet on evolution but rather decided to avoid its implications into theology. It's more like they have a temporary truce with evolution.

I mean Pope claims to belive or accept evolution but that seems very hypocritical since he doesn't have the explanation for the purpose of Jesus and Christianity if Adam didn't exist and therefore there is no original sin. Especially since, according to Augustine, the sin of Adam and Eve is thought to have passed down the male line - transmitted in the semen.

Indeed, in the encyclical Humani Generis the pope wrote

For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.

I mean creationists are wrong about evolution, but at least they are honest.