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I knew you were going to latch onto that, Fester, and I posted it because I wanted to make this point: Astrology is unchanged after a couple of thousand years. It has no new ideas at all. Its supposed mechanisms are no better understood than they were in ancient Babylon, and its predictions remain at the level of chance. It's as far from science as you can get.

On the other hand, evolutionary theory has changed as knowledge has increased. The usual creationist complaint is, "How come you keep changing it?? Can't you make up your minds??"

Are they both a problem, Fester -- evolutionary theory keeps changing and it keeps not changing? If you believe that, you're a doubleplusgood duckspeaker for sure!

Your point appears to be to miss the difference between a science that's old, but keeps changing as new discoveries are made (chemistry, biology, astronomy, evolution), with pseudoscience that hasn't made a single step forward in its history.

Nice cherry-picking, again. Want to try N-Rays and "Holy Ghost verification" this time?

Astrology is unchanged after a couple of thousand years.

Evolutionist speculations have been around just as long. The assumptions remain the same. The evidence is consistently shoehorned to fit the assumptions. Astrologers are no different.

Astrology is unchanged after a couple of thousand years.

But the stars have changed. The constellations are no longer show the same designs as they did to the ancients. Stella Polaris used to reside in Draco before she moved to the Little Dipper; the Pointer Sisters didn't in those days.

Want to try N-Rays and "Holy Ghost verification" this time?

Not that it has anything to do with a world summit on evolution, but if you are interested you can read more about Dr. Herrmann's view of "Holy Ghost verification" here. As I mentioned on another thread, this process is apparently, and self-admittedly, limited to a particular set of observers.