"I'd really like to see a citation or a source or some kind of data to back that assertion up. If that's true, then why has the Catholic church stated that evolution is compatible with Catholic doctrine? Or are ALL Catholics also athiest???"
YOU look it up! ALL the prominent evolutionists are atheists? Why the shock? You'd have to be one since you would be denying what the Bible says.
I'm not Catholic,. Never will be a Catholic so I don't pay attention to what your pope says. I'm Bible based. You will have to ask a fellow Catholic why they believe in evolution or if your church validates and then ask them why.
Ya gotta know when to hold, know when to fold ...
By believing in evolution, you would be denying a literal reading of the Bible. I agree with you on that point. However, not all people who believe in God also believe that the Bible should be read literally. If you read the Bible with some interpretation, you could reconcile it with evolution (ie. God created plants, then fish, then birds, then mammals, then people. If God used evolution as his mechanism for creating these creatures, then the order follows roughly what is predicted by the theory of evolution.) I simply object to your blanket unfounded assertion that ALL evolutionists are also atheists. For example, I think most people would regard Darwin himself as a prominent evolutionist. He was not an atheist (despite the crap I've seen on creationist web sites about this.) What you mean to say is that all evolutionists hold religious beliefs that differ from yours. That may be true, but it is irrelevant to the debate.