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Did Pascal really think about it?

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Did Pascal really think about it?
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RE: Did Pascal really think about it?
February 24, 2014 at 11:48 am
(February 24, 2014 at 4:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: And yet Pascal's Wager still has many fans.
When you cannot demonstrate god, you have to turn to cheap stunts like "you can't know for sure that he isn't there."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Did Pascal really think about it?

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Did Pascal really think about it? - by Psychonaut - February 24, 2014 at 1:05 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Cyberman - February 24, 2014 at 1:17 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Psychonaut - February 24, 2014 at 1:34 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Minimalist - February 24, 2014 at 1:59 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 24, 2014 at 5:50 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Cyberman - February 24, 2014 at 10:25 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Ryantology - February 24, 2014 at 2:43 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Mudhammam - February 24, 2014 at 4:41 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Tonus - February 24, 2014 at 11:48 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Esquilax - February 25, 2014 at 2:04 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Ben Davis - February 24, 2014 at 10:01 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Alex K - February 24, 2014 at 10:28 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Psychonaut - February 25, 2014 at 10:34 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Minimalist - February 24, 2014 at 11:30 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Alex K - February 24, 2014 at 11:46 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Minimalist - February 25, 2014 at 2:13 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by truthBtold - February 25, 2014 at 8:27 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Tonus - February 25, 2014 at 10:50 am
Re: RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by KUSA - February 25, 2014 at 9:24 am
RE: Did Pascal really think about it? - by Cyberman - February 26, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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