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Catholics believe that the Act by which God gave a beginning to all that exists outside of Himself is called Creation (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd Edition, 1994, section 290). Catholics are not compelled to take the story of creation, given in Genesis, as a literal recounting of the Act of Creation itself but as allegorical recounting. We are free to believe that evolution was the means God chose to use. We must, however, acknowledge God was the first cause. Here is a great article with an extensive Catholic explanation of Adam, Eve, and Evolution. It is well worth the read.

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