Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaise Pascal's ideas have led to some of the world's most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In an apostolic ...

Pascal’s Wager is an argument in philosophy that was developed by the 17th-century Philosopher Blaise Pascal. The premise of the argument hinges on the difficulty of knowing whether God exists.

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 ...

Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence, and the Abundant Life by Michael Rota, a Catholic philosophy professor, is an interesting consideration of whether one should choose to live a Christian life.

An updated version of Pascal’s wager offers a powerful argument for Christian commitment. Blaise Pascal, a 17th-century thinker, famously addressed these very questions. An influential mathematician, ...

The philosopher, theologian, and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) came up with a simple argument for why people should believe in God. Unlike other philosophers of his day, he didn’t try to ...