Old categories simply will not do in analysing this situation - it is also very difficult to deny the move towards paganism as much of it is explicit. Much of New Age thinking is concerned with nature - Green issues are often linked with New Age religious commitments. Here, we have a lot of things which we can use to point people towards God and Christ. New Agers are also challenging scientism - and if you start debunking scientism, you are going to be less bothered about moving away from mainstream evolutionary thinking. Indeed, some New Agers are actually critical of Darwinian evolution, and we may find more common ground than we might have first thought.
Scientists are, in their eyes, very human figures, often lacking wisdom.
Such an approach has no hooks on the person's understanding and falls on deaf ears most of the time. I think that the situation at the moment is possibly better than it has ever been for creationists speaking out - and having credibility. The scientist is becoming the bogey man - for instead of solving all our problems, we see him replacing one set of problems with another. So crises of famine and illness are replaced by the threat of nuclear war, acid rain, the destruction of the rainforests, the greenhouse effect, and so on. The scientists, who were supposed to be our saviours, have created a rather threatening society.