RE: But if the seven days was poetic language and exactly how God created the first man and woman, we can believe in evolution or not.
So, were Adam and Eve LITERALLY the ancestors of all mankind? Or were they symbolic? That’s the bottom line question.
There was a first man, an Adam, who all people descended from.
There was a first woman, an Eve, who all people descended from.
We may believe that Adam and Eve were preceded by millions of years of evolution, or not. Catholics can believe in evolution or not, but we must believe in a first man and woman who we all descended from.