Pascal’s Wager – A Good Bet? 0
Posted on 16, March 2015
in Category Decisions
Settle down and concentrate on this one…..Pascal’s Wager was about whether or not there is a God. If you wager against there being a God and there IS a God, that is bad news for you, so you should wager for there being a God. Pascal believed that religious belief was not a rational, but rather an existential choice, i.e. a choice you make in the face of uncertainty. So how do we make the right choice if we aren’t basing it on a betting outcome? We have talked about uncertainty before and one of the things that comes up [&hellip
