Non-literalism is the only interpretation of Genesis 1-11 which is at all reconciliable with the fundamentals of archaeology and geology.
It’s not that most Catholics are scientists, but most of them did attend at elementary schools with conventional science classes.
Ahem--that's if you assume uniformitarianism, that from the very first instant of existence all natural laws and all physical realities have operated exactly as they do now (the gestation period has always been nine months, no one has ever lived nine hundred years, etc.). Then in the name of scientific uniformitarianism I demand that you admit that dead people can't come back to life, water doesn't change into wine, and transubstantiation simply cannot take place. You have absolutely no excuse other than the most bald-faced hypocrisy (or else a knee-jerk prejudice against "those Bible-thumpers") in order to maintain this inconsistency.
It’s not that most Catholics are scientists, but most of them did attend at elementary schools with conventional science classes.
So? Fundamentalist Protestants attended the same classes but simply don't assume uniformitarianism. Do you actually not realize this?