Another permutation of Pascal's Wager, for the gamblers in R&S?

Either god exists or doesn't, so it is 50/50 chance, right?





I can see now why there are so many 'believers'. The reason why they were no good in science (and why they are so antagonistic towards it) is because they were no good at mathematics, the foundation of science. I guess it is better to say schitzophrenic, b/c they simultaneously admire it and hate it!





I am sure that the same people don't understand the mathematics of political voting, and the fact that your vote counts the same mathematically no matter how you cast it (i.e. voting for a winner or someone with a better 'chance' to win has no bearing whatsoever, under any circumstances, on the value of your vote). I wish that the 2000 election had come down to 1 vote. Then we could have paraded the last person who voted and said "how did they do it?". They could go on Oprah and CNN, and we could all just regard them in complete awe and amazement.

Another permutation of Pascal's Wager, for the gamblers in R%26amp;S?
I would calculate the odds of gods existence as far less than 50/50.... so that's where I stopped reading...
Reply:Is there a question here?





Pascal's Wager was nonsense because he only took into account two possible outcomes: If God doesn't exist, there are no negative consequences for the believer. He just dies. If God does exist, then the athiest is screwed, because he's going to hell.





That doesn't take into account that huge number of religions out there. What if you believe, but you believed in the wrong religion?
Reply:eh.... what?
Reply:Sorry, you're first line was wrong so I stopped reading.





Considering all of the gods man has created over time, it's more like 1 in 25,000. Except I don't believe there are any at all.
Reply:actually I think Pascal's wager works on the premise that heaven is an infinite reward. So it doesn't matter what the chance is God exists, as long as it's larger than zero. However the question whether there is something like an infinite reward is of course highly questionable, apart indeed from the question how the FSM would take it if you believed in God.
Reply:drink...
Reply:666
Reply:It is nowhere near a 50/50 chance.
Reply:I knew a kid in high school named Pascal I don't think his last name was Wager though because the one I knew wasn't good at math.
Reply:In order to say God exists, you only need one event. Probable.





In order to say God does not exist, you would have to show he does not exist everywhere at every time, thus becoming a God. Zero probability.
Reply:ROFL





But they will not understand that.
Reply:I wouldn't say 50/50 chance. (I don't have enough information about "god" to give you some sort of probablity score.)





But I really don't see where you're going with the rest of those words, they kind of rambled, I got bored and I quit reading.