Towards the end of the article it says: "I am also involved in the establishment of evolutionary religious studies as an authentic scientific discipline" From

Towards the end of the article it says: "I am also involved in the establishment of evolutionary religious studies as an authentic scientific discipline" From that sentence I understand that he is in fact trying to combine creation and evolutionary theory and call it a science. And to achieve that he must attack atheism. Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.