Sorry I couldn't help. It seems a cleaner theory somehow that God created life once, like lighting a single flame, and then sculpted it into all its myriad forms rather than light a hundred fires. Maybe (I don't know) the non-english pre-cursors of Genesis don't use the same word for "created" throughout. Some biblical scholar can elucidate this for us.
To finish on a point of unanimity: I think that both of us would insist that God created Man by "special creation" - our immortal souls are clearly not a product of evolution.
Well that's another angle; some people believe animals have souls of some kind. But even they tend to stop at, say, trees.
The thing is, why would anyone want to hear what the Catholic church has to say about the Scriptures? The Word of the Almighty was entrusted to a people He chose, Israel. Therefore, for interpretations and true translations, people should search in the English translations from the Hebrew/Aramaic/Peshitta texts, not from Greek/Latin persuasions. The latter are laced with deceit (humanism) and can only serve the purpose of keeping those who read their versions and views in bondage. We will indeed know the Truth, and that Truth shall set us free.