This article squares well with Keller's assertion that atheism or other forms of non-belief are actually alternative belief systems. A quote from the article (full text here):
"One way to explain religious deconversions is to think of them not as a subtraction but as a substitution. When religion departs, science-based humanism jumps in to take its place. "The point you hear again and again," says the anthropologist and biologist David Sloan Wilson, is that "somebody who says 'There's no God' trades the belief in for science. I'm perfectly happy thinking of science as another kind of religion. It's a very specialized kind of religion, in which the stated God is objective knowledge: factual realism."
Note in the last sentence of the article how Dawkins feels a person without some system of morality is an "incomplete person."
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