Pascal's formulation did not include the possibility that you would be
eternally damned if you *did* follow (his) God's teachings. (i.e., that
there is a God different from his Catholic God who would
punish him forever for worshipping a false God).
Glenn Shafer nicely draws a line between theology and
science in "The art of Causal Conjecture" by saying "When we speak of
causes ... we are speaking of the world as God has arranged for us to see it."
One interpretation of this is that casuality (for example) is a theory
founded upon measurement of real quantities (proportions, etc), and
God, separate from that as an unmeasurable force. The subjectivists
would disagree..
Nancy Cartwright recently spoke of God similarly in a talk she gave
here on limitations of causal theories.
(I missed the start of this thread, excuse
any redundancies.
Eric Neufeld
