I don't think that makes Jordan an atheist, it makes him an intelligent scientist who acknowledges the mystery. not a believer but he has faith. I must say this reads like a hit piece... to prove Jordan is an atheist? It is this kind of divisive nonsense I dispise. I agree with Jordan, not on all his views, but I don't know of any good argument FOR atheism either, which in my experience is a denial that the universe is an intelligent self-creating entity, God if you will. Some people used to say God was dead, I say no, God just moved to a new and better conception. Atheism is the only evidence that it may be true but atheism, like religion, is a belief and belief does not mean "think," it is instead the line where thinking stops. and a belief is accepted. As John Trudell said, "I wish people would think more and believe less. " Religion is faith in the power and principles of the universe. The organized religions are political, the art and practice of influencing others. We must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.