Most here have failed to read the entire article and/or search deeper.

A quote from the author of the book mentioned....
"Innumeracy, an inability to deal comfortably with the fundamental notions of number and chance, plagues far too many otherwise knowledgeable citizens. The same people who cringe when words such as "imply" and "infer" are confused react without a trace of embarrassment to even the most egregious of numerical solecisms. I remember once listening to someone at a party drone on about the difference between "continually" and "continuously." Later that evening we were watching the news, and the TV weathercaster announced that there was a 50 percent chance of rain for Saturday and a 50 percent chance for Sunday, and concluded that there was therefore a 100 percent chance of rain that weekend. The remark went right by the self-styled grammarian, and even after I explained the mistake to him, he wasn't nearly as indignant as he would have been had the weathercaster left a dangling participle."

As a group professed to be interested in the truth, you need to realize that you need to find it.

Long before I could do simple math, I was already asking questions about god and the church that there were no answers to. I would say that understanding logic, having a questioning mind, and not taking a pat answer for the truth were much more important than my math skills.

I'm pretty good at math. I do calculus, geometry and trigonometry for work.

Well, it's an opinion. I'm a twin, I can do simple math but not algebra or calculus and quit going to church at 12years old. My identical twin can do algebra and calculus, joined the church goes to church and thinks things in America are fucked up because we took God out of the schools.

For me, my ability to read with comprehension (something I think most Baby Boomers were taught in school) and cognitive math skills (rather than all the math I had to wade through in college as a Science major) were important elements of how & why I am an Atheist. What the author is talking about is more about recognizing the math relationships and principles.

Anyone who can comprehend that the 13,000,000,000 year old universe is composed of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars would find it extremely unlikely that the creator of the universe would first create it, then take a particular interest in 1/1000th of the population in 1 of 8,500,000 species on one of the planets orbiting one of the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars and decide to knock up one of their virgins.

This opinion piece is pure bunk, some of the best mathematicians I've known have been deeply religious, others totally non religious. Thankfully this was marked as opinion and not passed off as science.

I quit going to church at 14, and became an Atheist in my mid twenties. I totaly suck at math and have no interest in math. I still have no idea what algebra is for or how the hell l passed it. I am a drummer, and only have to count to four. One doesn't need math skills to have the ability for critical thought, and critical thought is what is required to figure out religions and the whole God thing.

Hold on chief !
I can’t do math . 0. If it’s not medical math , drugs / drips / etc , I can’t do any math . I have no idea how I got through colleges . Absolutely and barely
To say the basics , that’s a stretch
But here I am , 0 affections for any gods , demons , spirits , whatever , 0. Not now , not ever
Sister was doing complicated math at age of 4. Entered medical school at age of 13. 0 affection for gods ever . We are both the same 40 and 50 yrs later , I am still counting horses in my head if I run out of fingers , she is still a genius doctor , and we both think exorcist was the best comedy ever

I can do simple math but not algebra or calculus. Even so, I do daily online banking and also use a calculator. Daily or not you have to keep after it.

Interesting but not universal by any means. I did quite well in college algebra but I have absolutely no ability regarding understanding the vastness of the cosmos in mathematical terms.I've been an atheist for a long time despite that deficiency.

It seems to me that such articles and the claims made therein are at best amusing. Take a look at the following link.

[famousscientists.org]

But, do they become incompetent because of their religion, or did their incompetence represent a symptom of their gullibility.

Oh my, many are getting lost in the reading of the article and the conceptual math relationships.

I don't know about religion but it certainly make you easily taken in by things like gambling, and if you are foolish enough to fall for that, are you really fit, to say, vote in an election ?

That just doesn’t add up….

I don't think that is true. I knew some religious kids that were good at math. I have trouble with math outside of the basics.

Don’t christians believe that (1+1)+1=1?