Most everyone has heard of Pascal’s wager: It is better to bet on the existence of God—what have you got to lose?—than to wager against God and be damned. If that approach has lost some of ...

Pascal originally intended the wager to be for people who do not have a firm belief in God or are wavering in their faith. Professor Rota makes this offer again in light of recent studies and ...

Let us revisit the wager then and see if we can learn more. In Pascal’s set-up, God is not allowed to be a strategic player. By betting on God’s existence, Pascal can ensure that he will avoid ...

As the source of Pascal’s wager, he is often considered a gambling man. He urges the non-believer to bet that God exists. What does one have to lose? In Beyond the Wager: The Christian ...

If it turns out that God is not real, we have lost nothing. That is Pascal’s wager in brutal summation. Pascal’s wager sounds like a prudential response to the failure of reason to ...

If it turns out that God is not real, we have lost nothing. That is Pascal’s wager in brutal summation. Pascal’s wager sounds like a prudential response to the failure of reason to ...

Pascal’s presentation basically declares that if we wager that God is just a fairy tale and we are correct, we have lost nothing. However, if we believe that He is real and we love and serve Him ...

And it was with an eye toward converting his fellow French gentlemen that the young man devised the formula now known as Pascal’s Wager. There is a chance that there is no God, Pascal (1623-62 ...