Unbelievable? Is atheism a fool's bet? Rethinking Pascal's Wager

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Blaise Pascal was a 17th century Christian philosopher and mathematician who said that we all bet our life on the existence of God. So, you are better off believing in God because you've everything to gain if it's true and little to lose if it's not. But you've plenty to lose if you bet on God not existing and it turns out that He does. Kevin Moore is a young philosopher whose new book 'Untrumpable' revisits Pascal's classic argument in terms of 'wisdom'. He makes the case that Atheism is a foolish bet and we ought to live as if God existed. He even says his argument makes the best sense of Psalm 14 (The fool has said in his heart "there is no God"). Norman Bacrac, of the Conway Hall Ethical Society disagrees with Kevin and says that believing in God wouldn't make him change the way he lives as an atheist anyway. MP3 of this show http://media.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/9217e6a8-528c-4877-8c7d-ca22d83ec6c3.mp3 For 'Untrumpable' by Kevin Moore http://www.untrumpable.com For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.
0:05.0	Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.
0:08.0	You see when...
0:09.0	When we are trained in new skills, we can provide for ourselves.
0:12.0	Can I carry on? We can grow our own
0:14.9	vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the
0:19.6	whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.
0:27.0	To donate, search for Tier Fund, no going back.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome along, I'm Justin Briley, your host for Unbelievable this Saturday afternoon part of faith explored
0:36.7	The point in the week here on premier Christian radio when we help you to think through your faith look at the big issues and settle some of the questions
0:44.0	maybe that you have, but we also raise a lot of questions as well and I'm looking
0:47.8	forward today to another Christian atheist discussion on a really interesting
0:51.8	subject something we've never really tackled before on
0:54.7	unbelievable, Pascal's Wager and an updated version of that and we'll be meeting my guests
1:00.6	and what they have to say about that in just a moment's time and explaining
1:04.0	what Pascal's wager actually is as well.
1:07.0	Well if you're a regular listener you may be aware that we had a conference back in July and
1:11.1	I'm glad to say that the DVD and MP3 CD of the conference arrived in our offices
1:16.4	this last week and have been dispatched to all the people who pre-ordered them, who ordered them at the
1:20.8	conference itself and who have asked for them in various ways.
1:24.6	So they're on their way if you've been waiting patiently for your copy of
1:28.7	unbelievable the conference 2014 on DVD and CD. And not too late and certainly you can absolutely order a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Premier Unbelievable?, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Premier Unbelievable? and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.