Catholic schools in the United States and other countries teach evolution as part of their science curriculum. They teach the fact that evolution occurs and the
modern evolutionary synthesis, which is the
scientific theory that explains why evolution occurs. This is the same evolution curriculum that secular schools teach.
That is from the second link as well.
In an October 22, 1996, address to the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences,
Pope John Paul II updated the Church's position to accept evolution of the human body:
"In his encyclical
Humani Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points.... Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than a hypothesis. In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory."
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I can pick and choose, too. The position of the Catholic Church is that there is no conflict between Catholic dogma and the Theory of Evolution. does that sound like Intelligent Design support?
God himself could come down to Earth and say, "Hi 800," and you still would refuse to believe. With that in mind, good day.
