fuzz2050 wrote:to me, the msot convoncing is pascals wager, which basicly states you have to be either stupid or arrogant not to belive in god.
"If you belive in god, and you are wrong, you have lost nothing,
if you belive and you are right, you have gained everything
but if you dont belive and you are right, you have gained nothing
if you dont belive and your wrong, you have lost everything
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Are you sure you know what you're talking about? The wager example of Pascal simply illustrates that "Theism" is a stronger logical position than "Atheism". It cannot be used as a "prima facie" proof of God's existence.
You will notice that in it Pascal accomodates the possibility that God does not exist equally with the possibility that God exist. Common sense would tell you that you cannot use "mere possibility" as a proof of a proposition.
Can't you do better than that?