Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

As for the bit about divinely-guided evolution being the same as fundie-creationism, well, it may seem that way as first glance, but it goes deeper. My understanding of it is that divinely-guided evolution is exactly the same as scientific evolution, both for life and cosmology. It all takes the same amount of time, with the results being what they are today. Without the guidance by the divine, this would be a very different world

At the same time, creationists will only accept that the world is 6,000 to 12,000 years old (I don't know why some acknowledge longer durations, other than perhaps to account for established evidence of the age of Western civilization, while discounting the age of the Aborigines' existence in Australia.) I remember reading one fundie in one of those evolution trials explaining their beliefs, when confronted about the absolute measurement of the speed of light and the fact that the stars are thousands and millions of light years away. If the universe is only 6,000 years old, then the stars would have to be closer. No, was their answer, the light from those very distant stars "was created already on the way to Earth". They have an answer for everything, and won't accept the idea that the universe could be older than the bible states, much less the "ludicrous" idea that it's 13.7 billion years old

Sorry. Got long-winded again.