Disclaimer, just so you know where I stand :
I'm profoundly atheist, but I try to respect other people's views.
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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Gideon--there is another leg to Dawkins' thesis, and that is, whether or not God exists, and as a scientist he says the probability is very small. This leads on to the question of why we should worship something that probably does not exist? That is, why have religions?
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For an interesting take on this question, based on game theory, you can have a look at Pascal's wager :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
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Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should "wager" as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.
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I will not make that wager, but I find this opinion very interesting.
EDIT :
Yeah, I said I would resist posting on topic here, but I couldn't.
