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 ...

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.

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 ...

Q. For a mathematical argument for believing in God, one of the best is Blaise Pascal's famous 17th century "Wager." Recount this dicey heavenly proposition by the father of probability theory. A. As ...