Paul Robert Draper (born 1957) is an American philosopher, most known for his work in the philosophy of religion.
His philosophical inquiry is focused on issues in the philosophy of religion;[3] he has written extensively on the problem of evil, including the argument that the process of natural selection is sufficiently brutal so as to pose a problem for those who believe in an omnipotent and morally good creator.
[4] In 1997, he debated the Christian apologist William Lane Craig over the existence of God.
[6] One of Draper's influential and widely reprinted papers is "Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists",[7] published in the journal Noûs in 1989.
The paper relies significantly on the use of epistemic probabilities, equivalent to those used in Bayesian reasoning.