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What exactly is the Catholic belief of life on Earth? Is it the story of Creation? Is it micro or macro Evolution? I don't know. (I'm confused with the beliefs of other Christian denominations.)

SO was the pope the one to decide it is evolution and creationism? Cause I mean, if a pope ahead of him said it was just creationism, doesn't that mean a pope later on can not say it was both?

The Catholic church does not condemn evolution, as long as one includes God is its scientific process. Personally, I believe that evolution is feasible, and that should be taken into account. I think that people who are strictly creationist are ruling out science, whereas people who are strictly evolutionalist are ruling out faith. It takes both science and faith to make a perfect world, and both to prove God's existence in the first place. So, people, it does not matter if one believes in evolution or not, as long as they include God as the Designer and agknowledge that it is still a theory, not a fact. We have no proof to actually prove evolution or disprove it. That's my long-winded and not-very-helpful opinion, haha...

~KK

Just coming from a scientific point of view... the difference between a "law" and a "theory" is that a law simply describes a natural event, while a theory explains a natural event. Nothing is ever truly proven in science- "scientific facts" are being changed because of new discoveries all the time.
Evolution doesn't have proof, but it does have a lot of strong supporting evidence. (Want to see a cool one, look up "ring species".)

On the religious side...
The Church teaches that each human soul is individually created by God. That means that while we are biologically related to the animals, God specially created us with our ability to love and to choose good or evil.

sorry but the catholic church believes in Adam and Eve, to believe otherwise is to deny the teachings of the bible, which is a heresy,
God created MAN in His image and likeness, to believe we came from apes is an insult to God,

the catholic church believes in evolution in a different way, in which nature evolves, but evolution as they teach in schools is only theory, they teach it in theology, and in reality, it is as much as a fairy tale..

here's a quote that might help you understand better about why catholics don't believe in evolution...

"The utter incompatibility of Darwinian evolution and Sacred Scripture must be recognized. If belief in Adam and Eve is destroyed, then our entire Catholic Faith falls to pieces.

Because, if evolution is true then Adam and Eve did not even exist.

If Adam and Eve did not exist, then there is no such thing as original sin.

If there's no such thing as original sin, there is no need to be redeemed from original sin.

If there is no need for a redeemer, then there is no need for the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity to become Man and die on the Cross for our sins.

If there is no such thing as the Sacrifice of the Cross then there is no such thing as the sacrifice of the Mass, etc., etc., etc.

Evolution: Critical for the Atheist Agenda"

it was from an article written by John Vennari,
if you want to you can read the full article here-
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/evolution/evol.htm
i think that might explain much more

and God just decided to leave these little details out of the bible why?
i don't agree, we are specifically told that God created man, to create means to make from nothing, you seem to lack the perception that God can make something from nothing, there is no evidence of man coming from apes, although there is evidence of dinosaurs, and lots of it, why is that?
these are all only scientific theories that have no real foundation, if God wanted to make us from apes He would not hide it, He is perfect and does not make mistakes, and the ONLY time God spoke of imperfection in his work, is when He made Adam alone without anyone, that is when He made Eve, and He made her from Adams ribs, as was depicted,
but we have an even more accurate story of how it all happened, if you read the stories of Ann Catherine Emmerich, who was a woman God allowed to go back in time and see everything from the beginning, you will see there is no question,

this is nothing more than a theory, and i find it ridiculous that so many people have to see to believe in God or anything supernatural, and yet people believe unquestioningly about evolution and that we came from animals when there is no evidence that we can see,
scientists can make mistakes, and it was God himself who told us of the time to come when "scientists will be fooled" what do you think He meant by that?
how about the acorn that these scientists tested that was a newly grown acorn? i don't remember the age that came up, but it was thousands of years old or millions or whatever it was, they are FLAWED, they are only human,
and we also have to realize that humans have limited understanding, there are many things in even our world that we cannot understand, God does not want us to, He wants us to have faith,
these scientists are trying to make sense of how the universe came to be by this "big bang" theory, well is that as far back as they can think? they limit themselves and they try so hard to think up how the universe came to be WITHOUT God, you put your trust in these theories, or atleast think it's possible, well of course anything is possible with God, but God would not hide that from us, and He would not lie to us,

Adam and Eve were endowed by God with supernatural life in the form of sanctifying grace and with other certain preternatural gifts,
namely, bodily immortality, perfect control of nature by reason of freedom from irregular desire, i.e., concupiscence, freedom from suffering and
a knowledge of natural and supernatural truths infused by God, Adam and Eve received these gifts not only for themselves but for all their descendants,
And on top of that, what is your idea of the garden of eden? a paradise, made perfect, Created perfect(and perfection is not going to evolve)
it is the place where man was created, a place lost because of disobedience,

and just to clear something up,
how does this-
"Only faith and scientific findings regarding the evolution of man's material body are not in conflict, though man is regarded as a "special creation", and that the existence of God is required to explain the spiritual component of man's origins."
say that evolution of man can be true? i know what our last popes stance was on evolution, he did not believe that man evolved from anything, he said that man absolutely did not evolve from anything, but was created,
and he said that if there was evolution that it was only with plants and animals, the bible tells us that God made everything in 6 days, but one day could mean 1000 years, in which God could have allowed evolution, but the pope was clear and specific that man what not a result of any evolution,
i'd like to know exactly where you got that quote from,
and where exactly you heard that the pope believed mans evolution is possible.

unreasonable? am i supposed to believe what you say despite everything i know?
let there be light doesn't indicate a big bang and it is certainly not where scientists got it from,

i read threw that sites information on evolution, it doesn't say anything about it being ok to believe we came from animals, it talks about evolution as theory and speculation,
i didn't see anything supporting your claim, i could have missed it, but that still doesn't dismiss everything else i said in my last post,

but again, these are all only theories, and we as catholics cannot believe in evolution of man from apes, it completely takes Adam and Eve out of the picture, and i'm not going to repeat myself, everything i said in my last two posts have not been addressed whatsoever, so right now i'd like to ask that you take the time to look them over again and reply to them,

sorry if you think i'm being unreasonable, but if anything i said seems offensive to you, just remember you're on the internet, and you can't hear how i'm saying anything, but i can assure you i'm not being angry or arrogant in anything i'm saying, i'm just disagreeing, that doesn't mean i dislike you or anything, it just means we understand things differently.