Thomas Aquinas 6. Christ Taught 9. Vatican II 22. Traditional Catholicism 31. Veritatis Splendor 33.
Biology is studied as a set of relationships which change through time.
The creationist attack upon evolution puts Christianity in conflict with science. Christianity loses awful fast in that battle. Kids don't deserve to go to school with creationism in their heads causing them to assume their science teachers are lying to them about evolution. Their misrepresentation of science is the problem. To support that claim, they say there is no evidence for major transitions between types.