And it was with an eye toward converting his fellow French gentlemen that the young man devised the formula now known as Pascal’s Wager. There is a chance that there is no God, Pascal (1623-62 ...

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Ross Douthat, a Catholic columnist for The New York Times, has written a new book in response to this moment and to the ...