RE: Pascal's Wager (the new version)
March 2, 2013 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 28, 2013 at 3:43 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote: Actually it doesn't matter at all, you make many other factors and put probabilities for them
Your life will worth nothing near the end of your life i.e. =0
The probability of God (any God) will always be greater than 0
I'm way late to the party here, but I'll join in.
You state that the probability of ANY GOD existing will always be greater than 0.
For arguments sake, I'll accept that claim. That means that a god of ANY description with ANY attributes may have some probability of existing, right?
I posit a god that purposely does not provide any demonstrable evidence for his existence, he purposely gave us minds capable of reason and with the ability of evaluating evidence and logic. His foremost desire is that we use the minds he provided us with. And he purposely created the universe to look very much like a universe that exists due to purely natural mechanisms.
This god eternally rewards those of us that use the minds he gave us to determine that there was no justifiable reason to believe he exists. And eternally punishes those of you that believe in one of the many Bronze or Iron Age mythologies (Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc).
Prove that this god does not exist. Prove that you are not destined for eternal punishment for your misguided beliefs.
Pascal's Wager fails on all levels.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
