With respect, I think you are misinterpreting my position and that of Catholics.
So as to your two questions of how something came from nothing and how life came from lifelessness, we believe that God created the Heavens and the earth, out of nothing. We believe He created life. But as to how life changed, we believe that evolution is compatible with God’s creation. I agree, science cannot answer those two questions.
We are not deists who think that after God created the universe, He sat back and did nothing.
In the current debate between creationism and evolution, evolution removes God from the equation.
It presumes humans are not created in the image of God, but rather, we've "worked" our way up from little microbes to where we are today.
However, the catechism of the catholic church, which is the "official" teaching of the catholic church says Genesis is symbolic regarding the six days of creation.
CCC 337 God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.
I'm not sure how you can square away a literal adam and eve with symbolic days as the NT testifies to the accuracy of Genesis.
Evolution would have to deny Genesis.