To: M Kehoe
You've simply restated Pascal's Wager. Please see these refutations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager#Criticisms
39 posted on
10/01/2009 8:38:52 AM PDT by
GL of Sector 2814
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To: GL of Sector 2814
You've simply restated Pascal's Wager. Correct. The simplicity lies in the logical statement: It is, or it isn't. On or off. Binary mathematics. There are no refutations.
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46 posted on
10/01/2009 4:54:47 PM PDT by
M Kehoe
To: GL of Sector 2814
Those are not refutations, they're merely criticisms. You fail to understand it, just like Voltaire. From your link: But Voltaire, like many other critics, misunderstood the Wager. Pascal did not offer the wager as a proof. [12] It is merely a conclusion to his arguments against certainty that relies on the notion that reason is untrustworthy and that discerning God's actual existence appears to be "a coin toss." If reason can be trusted on the question of God's existence, then the wager simply does not apply. re⋅fute /rɪˈfyut/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ri-fyoot] Show IPA Use refute in a Sentence See web results for refute See images of refute verb (used with object), -fut⋅ed, -fut⋅ing. 1. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge. 2. to prove (a person) to be in error. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Origin: 150515; < L refūtāre to check, suppress, refute, rebut, equiv. to re- re- + -fūtāre presumably, to beat (attested only with the prefixes con- and re-; cf. confute )
51 posted on
10/03/2009 1:58:46 AM PDT by
Kevmo
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