We cannot prove the (non-)existence of God, but we can ask what might happen if we played strategic games with Him.

Pascal’s religion. In fact, Pascal argued that believing in the existence of God is essential to human happiness. For all of his many ideas and accomplishments, he’s probably most famous today ...

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal ...

On Aug. 19, 1662, French philosopher, mathematician and apologist Blaise Pascal died at just 39 years old. Pascal, ... 1654, Pascal experienced God's presence in a new and personal way, ...

There is a chance that there is no God, Pascal (1623-62) admitted. But if you were to live a life of dissolution, and it turned out that everything said in the Bible is true, you would be condemned.

As Pascal puts it, the Jews “carry with love and devotion this book in which Moses declares that they have been ungrateful toward God all their lives.” In other words, the Torah does not ...

Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs would come to extensively influence the religion and its practice. He also ...

Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.” Pascal (1623-1662) was a French ...

They range from Blaise Pascal and René Descartes (in the 17th century) to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (in the 18th century) to Kurt Gödel (in the 20th century), whose writings on the subject were ...

Title page of ‘Pensées’ by Blaise Pascal. Bridgeman via Getty Images. Pascal’s central argument in “Pensées” for believing in God did not rest on proof of God’s existence.On the ...