Originally Posted by paulmh
I thought David Hume had pretty much holed all of Aquinas' five ways? You have to admit though, Aquinas was an elegant thinker.
I prefer Pascal's Wager.
Thank you, thank you!!!I have been going nuts trying to remember the name of that!
"Pascal -- French philosopher, scientist, mathematician and probability theorist (1623-1662) -- argues that if we don't know whether God exists then we should play it safe rather than risk being sorry."
http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/pasc-wag.htm gives a long outline of the logic of Pascal's Wager and a number of rebuttals. The funny part to me is that anyone could take such a notion seriously.