1)The near dogmatic acceptance of evolution in the Catholic Church and concomitant relegation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis to "mythology" (often attributed to the Babylonians and Canaanites).
2)The omnipresence of "higher criticism" in the Catholic Church.
I note that no Catholic apologists ever address these two issues. It's always the exact same things (Mary, statues, real presence), but never the above two supremely important points. I wonder why?
So . . . now that you're Catholic you believe in evolution . . . right?
I know it wasn’t addressed to me, but I am willing to make the attempt, at least for your first point.
I, as a Catholic and trained in the biosciences, have no problem with the idea of evolution. Before you state that God created everything, it is in the bible, let me tell you - yes, He did. No argument on that.
It doesn’t say how though, does it? The ONE single example we have, of Adam himself being created from clay given the breath of life, is a fair analogy for evolution as we understand it.
There are plenty of places where the Lord gave evolution a nudge or two - one that always sticks in my mind is the sudden polyploidy in grains approx 30,000 years ago that made agriculture possible as a way of life, leading to communities, rather than a nomadic existance of families. You want a miracle - that is one, right there.
It is even referenced many times in the Bible itself. Why else would bread be the staff of life? The Lords prayer - “Give us this day our daily bread.” It isn’t “Give us this day success in the hunt.”
Personally, in a universe set up so perfectly balanced, where man - by design, think Heisenberg - cannot know everything, I find evolution an elegant testiment to God’s will. After all, to Him it is not random chance. He knows what was, is and will be.
For your second point, I am not sure what you mean. Could you expand please?