These forces actually could be considered tools used by God that enabled natural selection to occur.
True, but by what means: specially created or by evolutionary means?
This is basically what evolution states.
Yes.
Hold on a moment: You’ve just given your own conjecture I think.
If you’re saying that God is the Creator, then we agree.
If you’re saying that God could have only specially created each individual species independently of evolutionary means, then this is your own conjecture and not necessarily a conjecture supported by the Catholic Church either.
Latern VI says God created EACH CREATURE OUT OF NOTHING!!!
Lateran VI says: Firmly we believe and we confess simply that the true God is one alone, eternal, immense, and unchangeable, incomprehensible, omnipotent and ineffable, Father and Son and Holy Spirit: indeed three Persons but one essence, substance, or nature entirely simple. The Father from no one, the Son from the Father only, and the Holy Spirit equally from both; without beginning, always, and without end; the Father generating, the Son being born, and the Holy Spirit proceeding; consubstantial and coequal and omnipotent and coeternal; one beginning of all, creator of all visible and invisible things, of the spiritual and of the corporal; who by His own omnipotent power at once from the beginning of time created each creature from nothing, spiritual, and corporal, namely, angelic and mundane, and finally the human, constituted as it were, alike of the spirit and the body. For the devil and other demons were created by God good in nature, but they themselves through themselves have become wicked. But man sinned at the suggestion of the devil.
The Council of Cologne stated (a provincial council, but approved and praised by Pius IX)
In 1860, the Council of Cologne condemned the idea of human evolution in very straightforward words: "Our first parents were formed immediately by God. Therefore we declare that…those who…assert…man…emerged from spontaneous continuous change of imperfect nature to the more perfect, is clearly opposed to Sacred Scripture and to the Faith.”
In 1441, the Council of Florence stated in its decrees: “God…is the creator of all things visible and invisible, who, when he wished, out of his goodness created all creatures, spiritual as well as corporal; good, indeed…since they were from nothing…”
Vatican Council I says: If anyone does not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, as regards their whole substance, have been produced by God from nothing, or, shall have said that God created not by a volition free of all necessity, but as necessarily as He necessarily loves Himself, or, shall have denied that the world was created to the glory of God: let him be anathema.
The new catechism talks about how the literal sense, of scripture, should be adhered to unless there is a good reason not to.
Accordingly, the 1994 Catholic Catechism, in quoting St. Thomas Aquinas from the Summa Theologica, says in paragraph 116:
“The literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and… ‘all other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal.’”
