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[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[PZ Myers]] is one of the more active bloggers at [[Freethoughtblogs]]. ]] | [[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[PZ Myers]] is one of the more active bloggers at [[Freethoughtblogs]]. ]] | ||
| − | During the period of 2008 to 2012, the [[Atheist Population|atheist community]] made a concerted effort to spread [[atheism]] through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic | + | During the period of 2008 to 2012, the [[Atheist Population|atheist community]] made a concerted effort to spread [[atheism]] through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic during the latter period of this time.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!]</ref> See also: [[Internet atheism]] |
In 2016, an article entitled ''2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism'' featured [[Alexa]] web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.<ref>[http://combatingatheism.blogspot.com/2016/02/2015-was-terrible-year-for-internet.html 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism]</ref> Since 2012, [[Freethoughtblogs]] (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com#/trafficCard Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report]</ref> | In 2016, an article entitled ''2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism'' featured [[Alexa]] web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.<ref>[http://combatingatheism.blogspot.com/2016/02/2015-was-terrible-year-for-internet.html 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism]</ref> Since 2012, [[Freethoughtblogs]] (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com#/trafficCard Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 14:17, April 19, 2016
During the period of 2008 to 2012, the atheist community made a concerted effort to spread atheism through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic during the latter period of this time.[1] See also: Internet atheism
In 2016, an article entitled 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism featured Alexa web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.[2] Since 2012, Freethoughtblogs (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.[3]
An article entitled Internet atheism: The thrill is gone! declares:
| “ | In 2007, the Bible believer Chuck Norris noted that atheists were making a concerted effort to spread atheism via the internet. As you you will soon see via the graphs below, it has been an abysmal failure! The atheist community flooded the internet with a lot of shallow, ill-reasoned fluff that many in the public quickly dismissed.[4] | ” |
For more information see: Internet atheism - post 2007 market share loss
In 2007, WorldNetDaily featured a column by Chuck Norris concerning atheism and the internet which declared:
| “ | Atheists are making a concerted effort to win the youth of America and the world. Hundreds of websites and blogs on the Internet seek to convince and convert adolescents, endeavoring to remove any residue of theism from their minds and hearts by packaging atheism as the choice of a new generation. While you think your kids are innocently surfing the Web, secular progressives are intentionally preying on their innocence and naïveté.
What's preposterous is that atheists are now advertising and soliciting on websites particularly created for teens... YouTube, the most popular video site on the Net for young people, is one of their primary avenues for passing off their secularist propaganda.[5] |
” |
Atheism internet outreach efforts, however, have been very ineffective.
Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms
See also: Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms
Google trends measures the interest in various words/phrases as far as Google searches over time. Below is Google trends data for various terms relating to atheism/agnosticism for various countries and the the world as a whole and in general their is a recent downward trends as far as atheism related searches:
On February 24, 2015, the Science Nordic website declared: "Creationism has particularly been on the rise in step with the internet, which according to Peter Kjærgaard has made it much easier for people to become activists...[7]
Specific atheism terms
Worldwide interest in evolutionary ideas
- Worldwide interest in evolutionary ideas
- Worldwide online interest in Jesus vs. worldwide online interest in Charles Darwin
Notes
- ↑ Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism
- ↑ Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report
- ↑ Internet atheism and skepticism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55789
- ↑
- Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London
- Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?
- Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series
- Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ Science Nordic: 5 year study shows: Creationism, the belief that God -- not evolution -- shaped life on Earth, is spreading in the very stronghold of evolution, Europe