@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:I see it as science no longer held prisoner to a narrow Evangelical Christian religious doctrine, wherein all science is filtered through a Biblical literalists worldview.
Yes, I wondered if he might be hinting at the damage that is being done to education by religious ideas (like ID and Creationism) sneaking into science education, but I wasn't sure.
It makes me wonder if that sentence was intentionally crafted to mean different things to different people. If so, a very subtle phrasing.