Is there a time for different colours? Different names you find so hard to spell?
Thursday, November 15, 2007
What God has to do with my Math 12 class
Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal of decision theory to the belief in God. The Wager posits that it is a better "bet" to believe that God exists than not to believe, because the expected value of believing (which Pascal assessed as infinite) is always greater than the expected value of not believing.
In Pascal's assessment, it is inexcusable not to investigate this issue:
"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, I find it necessary to point out the sinfulness of those men who live in indifference to the search for truth in a matter which is so important to them, and which touches them so nearly."
-Blaise Pascal
In Pascal's assessment, it is inexcusable not to investigate this issue:
"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, I find it necessary to point out the sinfulness of those men who live in indifference to the search for truth in a matter which is so important to them, and which touches them so nearly."
-Blaise Pascal
Darfur Genocide : an eye-witness account
This is one of the most informative videos I've seen. The man narrating/presenting is former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle. He was a member of the African Union team monitoring the conflict in Darfur, where he took hundreds of photographs documenting the atrocities.
Do you understand this?
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. -C.S. Lewis
I'm struggling with this one...what is he saying?
I'm struggling with this one...what is he saying?
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