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As I stated in an earlier post .... every one of us will face our maker and we will answer for our actions ... all of them. Whether or not you believe that makes no difference. It doesn't make it any less true. For me it's an axiom of life. If I'm wrong, hey all it cost me was nothing. If your wrong, all it cost you was ...... your soul. (unless you don't believe in a soul .... but what if your wrong about that too?)

Wow! You posted this in an argument about whether or not evolution is true. Do you really think that being wrong about evolution will cost Christians their souls? If so then you ought to consider the possibility that you are the one who is wrong about evolution. Will God punish you for not accepting the abundant physical evidence for evolution that He made available in the rocks and genomes?

Pascal's Wager is garbage anyway. Riddled with fallacies.

It assumes that belief is a matter of choice, but this is not demonstrated. Most people don't in fact choose their religious beliefs in any meaningful way.
It assumes that the "belief" choice is free of cost, but this is not demonstrated. Certain beliefs (espoused by posters on these boards) would cause people to reject medical treatment that might improve their lives.
It assumes only two possible outcomes (truthful creator who honours promise of paradise, or no creator at all), whereas (hypothetically amongst many other possibilites) belief could be punished and unbelief rewarded by a trickster Creator.
It assumes that the creator would regard intentional belief derived from the wager as acceptable at accounting time.

"It assumes only two possible outcomes (truthful creator who honours promise of paradise, or no creator at all), whereas (hypothetically amongst many other possibilites) belief could be punished and unbelief rewarded by a trickster Creator."

A more obvious pitfall is the possibility of a Creator who punishes wrong belief more severely than simple non-belief. In fact, quite a few religions posit exactly that.