Question for Evolution-believing Catholics

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chrisb:
Grace and Peace vern humphrey,

Please correct me if I am taking your the wrong way but are you suggesting that death was in the World in plant and animal life but ‘not’ in man until Adam sinned?
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The teaching of the Church and the claim in Genesis is that Man would not have died had Adam and Eve not sinned. Animals and plants existed long before the first humans, and they died.
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chrisb:
I’ve never heard this from anyone. Is this your opinion or are you saying that this is a ‘teaching of the church’?
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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
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The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul’s spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.282 Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.283 Because of man, creation is now subject “to its bondage to decay”.284 Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will “return to the ground”,285 for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.286

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