Do Catholics think God couldn't tell us what he really did but had to tell us a lie so that we would believe him?
"It says, for example, that life was formed from the earth: If God chose to do that by manipulating molecules and atoms, it's rather easier to believe that than that random lightning strikes somehow created life."
The Book says that he created animals to reproduce after their kind. Man says that isn't how it happened. The Book says God created the sun/moon one day after the plants. Man says that isn't how it happened. The Book says that woman came from man. Man says that isn't how it happened.
"(It's about time they caught up.)"
Have they?
No.