Re: Adam and Eve - myth?

From: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 11:43:18 EST

wallyshoes wrote:
..............
> > I don't think I've ever heard a Christian say,
> > "I'd rather be Christian and wrong than atheist and right" but I suspect
> > this may be the attitude of some.
>
> Not too many. However Pascal was one who made such a statement. A discussion may
> be seen in: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/#4 I just say this
> for information, since most discussions focus on the flaws in Pascal's "wager"................

        Pascal didn't actually say this of himself. He offered the wager as an
apologetic argument - i.e., that the skeptic ought to play the odds.

                                                        Shalom,
                                                        George

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Dec 30 11:45:35 2003

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