2007-04-07 06:00:16 · 24 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks for the excuse to drink.
Margarita on the rocks, no salt please.
2007-04-07 06:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to this while you are watching me ? The Wager is described by Pascal in the Pensées this way[2]:
Let us now speak according to natural lights...Let us then examine this point, and say, "God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up… Which will you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose. This is one point settled. But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.
In his Wager, Pascal provides an analytical process for a person to evaluate options in regarding belief in God. As Pascal sets it out, the options are two: believe or not believe. There is no third possibility.
Therefore, we are faced with the following possibilities:
You believe in God.
If God exists, you go to heaven: your gain is infinite.
If God does not exist, your loss (the investment in your mistaken belief) is finite and therefore negligible.
You do not believe in God.
If God exists, you go to hell: your loss is infinite.
If God does not exist, your gain is finite and therefore negligible.
2007-04-07 06:42:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't. I evolved Pascal's Wager into a better form a few weeks ago - one which shows the pointlessness of believing in god.
2007-04-07 06:04:22 · answer #3 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager found a survival niche as an intellectually bankrupt theistic argument.
2007-04-07 06:15:30 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's wager is, by its nature just "saying" the words. To actualy believe them is a different matter. If god really does exist,he would be able to tell the difference, surely.
2007-04-07 06:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by the_emrod 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution has nothing to do with Pascals wager, dimwitt.
2007-04-07 07:00:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it used to be Pascals' certainty, but it adapted to it's environment when Darwin came along.
Glug glug
2007-04-07 06:03:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Can I drink? The Harvest Outreach commercial got me started...might as well continue :)
2007-04-07 06:02:20 · answer #8 · answered by KS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those two things are entirely unrelated. It's like saying "If Global Warming is true, why is there still The O'Reilly Factor"?
2007-04-07 06:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by The Lobe 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow! It is only 1:00pm here. Oh well, it's 5:00 somewhere! CHEERS!!
2007-04-07 06:07:47 · answer #10 · answered by Candace A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is just some philosophical idea. It is NOT scientific fact. Get an education, my fellow creationist.
2007-04-07 06:02:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋