Mole's Wager: Something For Sinners to Bank On
On Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC at 9 o’clock in the morning, London time*, the Lord God got bored and created the universe. He was lonely so he invented man. Mole's wager, a revolutionarily optimistic proposition for the bulk of mankind, is based on the contention that there will come a time at the end of time when God gets lonely again. Blase Pascal, 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, formulated what came to known as Pascal's wager. Pascal advised that given the choice between... Sign in to see full entry.