This is a Hoax.- I have email from him admitting it.

The author keeps pulling posts that show this is a bogus blog.  Coward and fraud.

• None of the references or links are to what they purport to be.
• The reference to Time is from 2006
• There is no Macy's building near Case Western Reserve in Cleveland (I'm a resident I know better).  Most Likely from Chicago.
• The foliage in the background isn't winter either, and the protestors are dressed wrong for winter
• There is no 'Novus' publishing works on genomes, either from Case or anywhere else. 
• Similar work to that described from case researchers appeared in 2002.
• CCoR (visible on the lower right of the placards) is the Chicago Council of Rationality).  Probably from a fake protest to promote Bill Mayer's "Religulous"
• The Freedom From Religion Foundation had its National Meeting last month...November 2009, there is no major meeting in January 2010.
• There are no references to this in the Cleveland Plain Dealer or other publications linked to the blog.
• The only link that seems to be what it's supposed to be is the snake-oil young earther preacher
• the URL link says 'noman' not Norman.  Freudian slip or clue?
• Graduate students aren't interviewed about papers...their professor is the primary author and would be the one to take any interviews.

I'm hoping if I keep posting this it will come to the attention of the hard to reach Salon staff and they'll take appropriate action.

Also hope others pick up on this and flood the guy so he can't take down damning posts as fast as they come in.