The illogic of Atheism

Surely that quote from Hitchens was tongue-in-cheek?

Not only that, but it's taken out of context and the beginning has been altered in a misleading way. It's preceded by a reference to the theory that fossils were created by God to test our faith. Then it continues:
This cannot be disproved. Nor can my own pet theory that, from the patterns of behavior that are observable, we may infer a design that makes planet earth, all unknown to us, a prison colony and lunatic asylum that is employed as a dumping ground by far-off and superior civilizations. However, I was educated by Sir Karl Popper to believe that a theory that is unfalsifiable is to that extent a weak one.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Lm9VdH...0&lpg=PT60

That being the case, the commentary following the Hitchens quotation in Mathis's article is quite dishonest.