In his letter of July 25, “If abortion supporters are wrong, what are the consequences?” Michael Folse raises the famous wager posited by the 17th-century mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal ...
The wager only scratches the surface of his relevance to a post-Christian era. It is a common lament that we live in a post-Christian era. This fact raises challenges to our witness to the world. Most ...
"Pascal's Wager," an argument for belief in God, was formulated by 17th-century French philosopher and Christian apologist Blaise Pascal. The "wager" argues that if one lives as an agnostic, he is ...
“It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege. It doesn’t need to be. What is beyond debate, however, is that there is a huge amount of scientific ...
After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...