Unfortunately, the idea that evolution is somehow teleological, and imbued with some all pervasive spirit or consciousness, presents endless problems of its own, not least the existence of evil. The 'guidance' that you speak of has some strange ideas about the goals of its endeavours, when one considers the delightful habits of the Jewel Wasp or the Guinea Worm, for example.
It is a philosophical position and not a religious position. The idea of Consciousness being fundamental and all pervasive is quite old. I have posted Hoffman's ideas in the Consciousness thread precisely to show how scientists are beginning to think.
The idea of panpsychism is now becoming quite 'koshar' I think.
https://mindmatters.ai/2020/05/why-is-science-growing-comfortable-with-panpsychism-everything-is-conscious/************
So why the thaw toward panpsychism over the past few years? Possibly, panpsychism offers a way to be a naturalist (nature is all there is) without the absurdities of physicalism (everything in nature must be physical). The panpsychists who are gaining attention are, generally speaking, naturalists.
Consciousness, for the panpsychist, is the intrinsic nature of matter. There’s just matter, on this view, nothing supernatural or spiritual. But matter can be described from two perspectives. Physical science describes matter “from the outside,” in terms of its behavior. But matter “from the inside”—i.e., in terms of its intrinsic nature—is constituted of forms of consciousness.
What this offers us is a beautifully simple, elegant way of integrating consciousness into our scientific worldview, of marrying what we know about ourselves from the inside and what science tells us about matter from the outside.
But dropping physicalism likely entails some changes. Panpsychists need not be Darwinists, for example. That is, they need not account for human consciousness either as a trait that evolved to help ancestors of humans survive on the savannah or as a byproduct of such a trait.
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