[kosta50]

This is also a de fide doctrine of the Catholic Church: Adam and Eve were historical humans, from whom we all descend in genetic and not allegorical sense. A Catholic MAY opt to combine this with a believe in theistic evolution of humans, and construct a theory whereby apes evolve to a certain point at which God selects two apes and breathes a soul into them. However, whatever the mechanism of the creation of man is presumed, the biological paretnhood of Adam and Eve is a dogmatic belief.

That is reasonable. Once the souls were breathed into the creatures, they became human at that moment. But the Bible tells us they were made from "scratch."

[annalex]

But the Bible tells us they were made from "scratch."

I, basically, think that macroevolution (from species to species) is a hoax. But if one wishes to believe it, one can read the account of the creation of man form mud as an evolutionary process, that involved many steps whereby God created man from inanimate matter.