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Pascal’s Wager
Blaise Pascal argues that there is a mathematical possibility that God exists. His argument is know as Pascal’s Wager, and he states that believing in God is sensible and rational even though there is no evidence or objective certainty to believe it. Simply put, he argues that you have more to gain from believing in God than you have to lose. According to Pascal there are essential benefits in believing in
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on mathematics that plea with his outcomes. No assumptions of the nature of God need to be made if there is a mathematical probability that God exists. Another reply Pascal could make is that we as being very limited to the reasoning based on observations of familiar things cou!
ld not possibly hope to understand an all-knowing and powerful God by rational inquiry. In both cases there is a probability that God exists.
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