Why do conservative American Catholics like Phyllis Schlafly hate evolution?

[WindowPhil]

The Catholic Church advocates for evolution from what I heard, but many American conservative Catholics like Phyllis Schlafly are young earth creationists.

Why is that?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Many conservative American Catholics are conservative Americans first and Catholics second, and that shows up big time in their views on subjects like this due to the past thirty or forty years of political alliance with Evangelicals.

[Big Abraham]

Don't a handful of them also reject the Second Vatican?

I think they're more in line with traditionalist Catholic teaching.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Don't a handful of them also reject the Second Vatican?

I think they're more in line with traditionalist Catholic teaching.

They do, but papal acceptance of the basics of evolutionary theory actually predates Vatican II so not even that is an excuse in this case.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

I thought that the Catholic Church said that Catholics are free to believe in creationism or evolution?

[Associate Justice PiT]

I thought that the Catholic Church said that Catholics are free to believe in creationism or evolution?

     Indeed, my understanding of the situation is not that Catholicism "advocates for evolution", but that it permits belief in such a position. One can of course believe in evolution for science-based reasons, but it seems odd to cast creationism as being incompatible with Catholicism.

[TJ in Oregon]

Many conservative American Catholics are conservative Americans first and Catholics second, and that shows up big time in their views on subjects like this due to the past thirty or forty years of political alliance with Evangelicals.

To be honest most of them have simply never had the Church's position explained to them coherently. And on top of that the Church does not require us to believe in evolution, so there's not a huge point in raging on about it. You are vastly overestimating the malice of the normies here; most of them just go with the flow, and since the religious culture of the US is driven by evangelicals, a bunch of Catholics are going to end up thinking evolution's not real.

[RFayette]

It is worth noting that many Christians, Catholics included, falsely believe that evolution precludes belief in a literal fall of a literal Adam and Eve from whom we all inherit original sin.  This is partly because many proponents of theistic evolution, like Biologos, often downplay the importance of there being a literal Adam/Eve so people package these views together rather than treat each as separate issues.