"But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 2 Peter 3:8 I would be careful about using this verse because it still doesn't support millions of years of evolution.
The point I was trying to make is that since the author of Scripture is God, not man,
Egad! Protestant heresy! Everyone knows that "real Catholics" (and Orthodox) believe that the writing of the Bible was a synergistic cooperation between G-d (just a little bit) and a bunch of ignorant, stone-age savages (most of it). You better watch out or you'll get yourself excommunicated! And btw, why does everyone quote the quote in the "new testament?" Why not quote the original source in the TaNa"KH?
the word "day" means what God intends it to mean, not what man interprets it to mean. IIRC, Sts. Augustine and Aquinas held this view.
Catholics always use Augustine and Aquinas to justify evolutionism. I can't speak to the hyper-rationalist Aquinas, but Augustine did not believe that the six days were six thousand years. He believed everything was created in a single instant and the six days were "visions" of the creation which He then showed to the angels. You're being very sloppy if you're hanging on to Augustine to "prove" that the Catholic Church has taught evolution from the beginning. No, it has simply changed its teaching.
Officially, it has not. Even VII doesn't profess evolution. Having said that, recent popes have made it seem that the teaching has changed.