Spectrum of theistic probabilityPopularized by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion, the spectrum of theistic probability is a way of categorizing one's belief regarding the probability of the existence of a deity. J. J. C. Smart argues that the distinction between atheism and agnosticism is unclear, and many people who have passionately described themselves as agnostics were in fact atheists. He writes that this mischaracterization is based on an unreasonable philosophical skepticism that would not allow us to make any claims to knowledge about the world.
Non-overlapping magisteriaNon-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) is the view, advocated by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values, so there is a difference between the "nets" over which they have "a legitimate magisterium, or domain of teaching authority", and the two domains do not overlap. He suggests, with examples, that "NOMA enjoys strong and fully explicit support, even from the primary cultural stereotypes of hard-line traditionalism" and that it is "a sound position of general consensus, established by long struggle among people of goodwill in both magisteria.
William Lane CraigWilliam Lane Craig, né le à Peoria dans l'Illinois, est un philosophe analytique de la religion, théologien et apologète évangélique baptiste américain. Il est professeur de philosophie à la Talboot School of Theology (Université Biola), à La Mirada, en Californie, et professeur de philosophie à l'Université baptiste de Houston à Houston, au Texas. William Lane Craig participe régulièrement à des débats publics universitaires sur l'existence de Dieu et les preuves historiques de la résurrection de Jésus.
