Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs would come to extensively influence the religion and its practice. He also ...

Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher, 1623-1662. Engraving by Geille. Culture Club/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

One of the most recognized philosophical argument supporting the belief in existence of God, Pascal’s Wager, draws a 2X2 ...

Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ~ Pascal, Blaise Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) made important contributions to mathematics in general and the theory of probability in particular.

It was then that French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal crafted what is still known as “Pascal’s Wager.” His purpose was to provide a reasonable foundation for belief in the God ...

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 ...

This is the famous argument known as 'Pascal's wager' after the great seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. This week, we examine the wager and try to work out what our odds are.

There is a chance that there is no God, Pascal (1623-62) admitted. But if you were to live a life of dissolution, and it turned out that everything said in the Bible is true, you would be condemned.

Pascal's wager is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager as though God exists.