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ELI5: What is Pope Francis' position on Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden in light of his recent statement regarding evolution?

Google is just returning the same sound bites and Wikipedia is entirely lacking so I'm hoping a Catholic may best explain the story here on the Pope's official position.  Please don't turn this into a debate about whether he is right or wrong, create a new thread somewhere else please for that.

I am finding it quite difficult to understand how you could merge these different statements into one reality (totally ignoring whether I agree with it), which leads to me believe the Pope has abandoned the Garden of Eden story as being true.  The other explanation could be that by evolution he does not simply mean the agreed definition in scientific circles and his postulation is a lot more complicated than the soundbites would indicate.
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Basically, god planned out the evolutionary process and was responsible for the original "spark" of life. And then God sat back and watched as evolution progressed until we got to great apes, then, he took one of these apes, uplifted him, endowed him with a soul and set him up in the Garden of Eden as the first man (Eve came later).

The Catholics are not particularly concerned about nailing down *precisely* how God created humanity. Just that it's *God* who created humanity.