ebab7d0da53c51438720d60c6e2e467c - /page/wikibook/entry.mu

Micron Document

<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>Internet Infidels</title>

</head>

<span id="openzim-page-title" class="mw-page-title-main"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Internet Infidels</span></span>

</h1>

</header>

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Internet Infidels</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1995 <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span> (30 years ago)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Types</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization">nonprofit organization</a>, <a href="Educational_organization" class="mw-disambig" title="Educational organization">educational organization</a>, atheist organization <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Tax ID no.</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("./mw/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("./mw/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("./mw/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("./mw/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><a href="EIN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="EIN (identifier)">EIN</a> 841412395</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Nonprofit_corporation" title="Nonprofit corporation">nonprofit corporation</a>, <a href="501(c)(3)_organization" title="501(c)(3) organization">501(c)(3) organization</a> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Colorado_Springs%2C_Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado">Colorado Springs</a>, <a href="Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org/">www<wbr>.infidels<wbr>.org</a></span> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Internet Infidels</b>, Inc. is an American nonprofit educational organization founded in 1995 by Jeffery Jay Lowder and Brett Lemoine. Its mission is to use the Internet to promote a view that supernatural forces or entities do not exist (<a href="Metaphysical_naturalism" title="Metaphysical naturalism">metaphysical naturalism</a>). Internet Infidels maintains a website of educational resources about <a href="Agnosticism" title="Agnosticism">agnosticism</a>, <a href="Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a>, <a href="Freethought" title="Freethought">freethought</a>, <a href="Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a>, <a href="Secularism" title="Secularism">secularism</a>, and other <a href="Nontheistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nontheistic">nontheistic</a> viewpoints particularly relevant to nonbelievers and skeptics of the paranormal. Relevant resources include rebuttals to arguments made by religious apologists and <a href="Theistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Theistic">theistic</a> philosophers, transcripts of debates between believers and nonbelievers, and responses from opponents of a naturalistic worldview. The site has been referred to by one of its critics, Christian apologist <a href="Gary_Habermas" title="Gary Habermas">Gary Habermas</a>, as "one of the Internet's main Web sites for skeptics",<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by skeptical physicist <a href="Taner_Edis" title="Taner Edis">Taner Edis</a> as "a major Web site serving nonbelievers".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its tagline is "a drop of reason in a pool of confusion".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission">Mission</h2></div>

<p><a href="Richard_Carrier" title="Richard Carrier">Richard Carrier</a>, former <a href="Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief">editor-in-chief</a>, said that "the mission of the Internet Infidels has always been to defend and promote Metaphysical Naturalism".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organization formally adopts agnostic philosopher <a href="Paul_Draper_(philosopher)" title="Paul Draper (philosopher)">Paul Draper</a>'s definition of metaphysical naturalism as "the hypothesis that the natural world is a closed system, which means that nothing that is not a part of the natural world affects it. ... [This] implies that there are no supernatural entities, or at least none that actually exercises its power to affect the natural world."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Internet Infidels aims to inform readers that similar views have been adopted around the world and across historical eras, to make hard-to-find information more easily available, and to encourage those who profess belief to review all of the arguments and evidence and come to their own conclusions.

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secular_Web">Secular Web</h2></div>

<p>The primary product of Internet Infidels is the Secular Web website, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org">infidels.org</a>. Its Modern Library section includes contemporary articles (1970–present) offering arguments that all religions are false (particularly <a href="Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormonism</a>, <a href="Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, and <a href="Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>), arguments against the <a href="Existence_of_God" title="Existence of God">existence of God</a>, critiques of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments for metaphysical naturalism. A series of written debates between prominent theistic and nontheistic philosophers covering these issues and available in the Modern Library is titled "God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The Secular Web also includes a section containing historical works critical of religion by <a href="Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>, <a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, <a href="Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <a href="Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, and <a href="Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>.

</p><p>The Secular Web Kiosk section features short, informal articles. These general interest articles include editorials, book reviews, commentary on social issues or public policy, satire, and fiction, among other things.

</p><p><a href="Bruce_B._Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce B. Lawrence">Bruce B. Lawrence</a>, the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University, described the site as "hard to top" for "thoughtful material, extensive networking, and interdisciplinary flair."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p>

<p>Until 2008 Internet Infidels hosted a discussion board, IIDB (Internet Infidels Discussion Board), but during 2008 IIDB was transferred to a new site, Freethought and Rationalism Discussion Board (FRDB). Both of those sites were eventually archived<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as FRDB became Talk Freethought<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2014. Talk Freethought continues in the tradition of IIDB and FRDB, hosting discussions on a number of subjects including philosophy, science, politics and of course, religion.

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2">

<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFHabermas2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Gary_Habermas" title="Gary Habermas">Habermas, Gary R.</a> (2004). <i>The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus</i>. Kregel Publications. p. 298. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8254-2788-6</bdi>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFEdis2005" class="citation book cs1">Edis, Taner (2005). <i>Science and Nonbelief</i>. Greenwood Press. p. 174. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-313-33078-6</bdi>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFStarobin2009" class="citation journal cs1">Starobin, Paul (7 March 2009). "Rise of the Godless". <i>National Journal</i>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFCarrier" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Richard_Carrier" title="Richard Carrier">Carrier, Richard</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/mission.html">"Defining Our Mission"</a>. Internet Infidels.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDraper" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Paul_Draper_(philosopher)" title="Paul Draper (philosopher)">Draper, Paul</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_draper/evil.html">"Natural Selection and the Problem of Evil"</a>. Internet Infidels.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDraper" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Paul_Draper_(philosopher)" title="Paul Draper (philosopher)">Draper, Paul</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org/library/modern/debates/great-debate.html">"God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence"</a>. Internet Infidels.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Bruce_B._Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce B. Lawrence">Lawrence, Bruce B.</a>; <i>The Complete Idiot's Guide to Religions Online</i>, Alpha Books, 2000, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0789722096</bdi>. p. 267</span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://frdbarchive.org">"IIDB and FRDB Archive"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 15,</span> 2025</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://talkfreethought.org/">"생각이야기"</a>. <i>talkfreethought.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 15,</span> 2025</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

</ol></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infidels.org/">Official website</a></span></span> </li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

This article is issued from <a class="external text" title="Last edited on 2025-03-15" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?title=Internet_Infidels&oldid=1280623772">Wikipedia</a>. The text is available under <a class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0</a> unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

</div>

</div></div>

</div>

</main>

</div>

</body></html>