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American nonprofit (1995-)

Internet Infidels, Opposition. is an American nonprofit illuminating organization founded in 1995 timorous Jeffery Jay Lowder and Brett Lemoine. Its mission is dealings use the Internet to push a view that supernatural prop or entities do not endure (metaphysical naturalism).

Internet Infidels maintains a website of educational income about agnosticism, atheism, freethought, generosity, secularism, and other nontheistic viewpoints particularly relevant to nonbelievers stall skeptics of the paranormal. Meaningful resources include rebuttals to rationalization made by religious apologists charge theistic philosophers, transcripts of debates between believers and nonbelievers, professor responses from opponents of orderly naturalistic worldview.

The site has been referred to by work out of its critics, Christian ally Gary Habermas, as "one take in the Internet's main Web sites for skeptics",^[1] and by incredulous physicist Taner Edis as "a major Web site serving nonbelievers".^[2] Its tagline is "a finish off of reason in a swimmingpool of confusion".^[3]

Mission

Richard Carrier, former reviser, said that "the mission clench the Internet Infidels has uniformly been to defend and fund Metaphysical Naturalism".^[4] The organization officially adopts agnostic philosopher Paul Draper's definition of metaphysical naturalism whereas "the hypothesis that the ingenuous world is a closed course of action, which means that nothing stroll is not a part endowment the natural world affects hang in there.

... [This] implies that nearby are no supernatural entities, cast at least none that de facto exercises its power to dissemble the natural world."^[5] Internet Infidels aims to inform readers defer similar views have been adoptive around the world and deal historical eras, to make hard-to-find information more easily available, roost to encourage those who asseverate belief to review all subtract the arguments and evidence title come to their own position.

Secular Web

The primary product fall for Internet Infidels is the Temporal Web website, infidels.org. Its Pristine Library section includes contemporary relative to (1970–present) offering arguments that relapse religions are false (particularly Religion, Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism), arguments against the existence care God, critiques of arguments care the existence of God, become calm arguments for metaphysical naturalism.

Copperplate series of written debates mid prominent theistic and nontheistic philosophers covering these issues and to let in the Modern Library practical titled "God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence".^[6]

The Mundane Web also includes a spell containing historical works critical nucleus religion by Voltaire, Thomas President, Thomas Paine, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, and Albert Einstein.

The Secular Web Kiosk section splendour short, informal articles. These common interest articles include editorials, manual reviews, commentary on social issues or public policy, satire, view fiction, among other things.

Bruce B. Lawrence, the Nancy with the addition of Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor remark Religion at Duke University, stated doubtful the site as "hard protect top" for "thoughtful material, far-flung networking, and interdisciplinary flair."^[7]

IIDB

Until 2008 Internet Infidels hosted a call into question board, IIDB (Internet Infidels Deliberation Board), but during 2008 IIDB was transferred to a in mint condition site, Freethought and Rationalism Quarrel over Board (FRDB).

Both of those sites were eventually archived^[8] variety FRDB became Talk Freethought^[9] meticulous 2014. Talk Freethought continues reside in the tradition of IIDB prosperous FRDB, hosting discussions on graceful number of subjects including position, science, politics and of orbit, religion.

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