Pascals Wager

Pascal’s Wager named after the famous French mathematician is an application of decision theory to the belief in God.

Pascal argues that it is always a better “bet” to believe that God exists, because the expected value to be gained from believing that God exists is always greater than the expected value resulting from non-belief.

With his wager he sought to demonstrate that believing in the existence of God is more advantageous than not believing, and hoped that this would convert those who rejected previous theological arguments.