...and cabbages and kings

[chaletian]

Also, I do not understand in the least how Pascal's wager (in its basic form) is supposed to convince anyone that God exists. Surely all it proves is that, in the most basic dual terms that given equal probabilities of the existence and non-existence of God, believing in him might be better for your posthumous existence. That doesn't then logically prove that God *does* exist. It just shows that being a bit craven about the whole thing might be a way forward.