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	www.wager.org.au /faq.html (1556 words)

	Scientific wager - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A scientific wager is one whose outcome must be settled by the scientific method.
		There are usually few restrictions placed in the terms of the wager, but wagers are generally perforce won by disproving the statement or proposition under discussion.
		Wagers act as powerful stimulants in the scientific community, and two scientists most renowned for making their work accessible to the general public, or being the public face of difficult sciences, such as quantum physics, Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman, are famous for placing and accepting wagers.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php?title=Scientific_wager (113 words)

	Pascal's Inference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pascal’s wager is not a proof of God; it is rather an encouragement to believe, a simple demonstration of the reasonableness of belief, whose main point is : "you have little to lose and everything to gain." Its main outlines are captured in the accompanying matrix.
		The wager is compelling, but it has an important weakness as an apology for belief: the favorite modern metaphor for non-belief is not that of the bettor, but that of the scientist.
		Pascal’s inference highlights the value judgments which are inherent in scientific proof - the acceptance or rejection of an hypothesis is not a purely objective exercise, but depends importantly on the aversion of the researcher to the two types of inferential errors.
	faculty.pepperdine.edu /ayuenger/pascals_inference.htm (1932 words)

	Scientific wager
		The divers from the Dorset-based Scientific Exploration Society (SES) said they were confident they had found "a significant chunk of HMS Wager".
		Some wagers have specific date restrictions for collection, but many are open.
		Historian Alan Shapiro has stated that this episode was "undoubtedly one of the most crucial wagers in scientific history".
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/sc/scientific_wager.html (461 words)

	Guide W-Z
		Wager was born on 5 February 1904 in Batley, Yorkshire.
		Wager and P. Wyn Harris were chosen to lead the final assault on the summit on 29 May 1933; in adverse weather, they were not successful but they reached a greater height than any previous climbers until the successful ascent by Hilary and Tenzing twenty years later in 1953.
		Wager had been one of the three scientists chosen in 1969 for the pilot project that led to the formation in 1973 of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre (now the NCUACS).
	www.bath.ac.uk /ncuacs/guidew-z.htm (11947 words)

	Faith in the impossible.
		Scientific theories about reality are framed in such a way that they can be tested against reality.
		But they are willing to accept types of "evidence" they would never accept in everyday life, or from their own contemporaries: the claims of dogmatic authority, of scripture, of private internal experience, of their own hopes and desires.
		However, if he had applied his wager to the articles of faith, he would have been wrong to say that we stand to lose nothing.
	members.aol.com /heraklit1/faith.htm (2341 words)

	Peter Donis Web Site - Science Article: Pascal's Wager and Global Warming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Pascal's Wager argument assumes that if global warming will be a problem and we act as if it won't, the downside will be much worse than any of the other possible outcomes.
		Another unstated premise, not so much of the Pascal's Wager argument as of the main action I advocate, is that CO2 emissions are the main human impact on global warming.
		This Scientific American article discusses a controversy a couple of years back over a critique of one of the key conclusions that went into the 2001 IPCC report: that global average temperatures at the end of the 20th century were higher than they had ever been for more than a thousand years.
	members.cox.net /peterdonis/science/sciencearticle2.html (7962 words)

	Apologetics.org - Meeting Darwin's Wager Christianity Today Article on Michael Behe by Tom Woodward: Part Two
		Now his own book moved beyond Denton, not only reviewing the weak state of the scientific evidence for macroevolution but also pinpointing the key roles that philosophical assumptions were playing in the presentation and defense of Darwinism.
		Many observers described Behe's paper, on the isolated nature of protein families, as a "scientific bombshell." Using statistical and biochemical analysis, Behe proposed that the informational structure of proteins points to an intelligent designer, just as a book's letters must be formed in correct order by an author to produce coherent text.
		The polite but scientifically high-octane contributions of Behe were a highlight of the symposium.
	www.apologetics.org /articles/wager2.html (2017 words)

	Argument from Pascal's Wager by Peter Kreeft
		Medieval philosophy was dead, and medieval theology was being ignored or sneered at by the new intellectuals of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
		The Wager appeals not to a high ideal, like faith, hope, love, or proof, but to a low one: the instinct for self-preservation, the desire to be happy and not unhappy.
		Once it is decided that we must wager; once it is decided that there are only two options, theism and atheism, not three, theism, atheism, and agnosticism; then the rest of the argument is simple.
	www.peterkreeft.com /topics/pascals-wager.htm (1962 words)

	Simon-Ehrlich wager
		Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time.
		Simon offered to raise the wager to $20,000 and use any resources at any time that Ehrlich preferred, but the two were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a second wager.
		Overpopulation -- The Population Explosion "Brownlash" and the wager
	www.online.gambling.name /Simon-Ehrlich_wager.html (1284 words)

	There are only four possibilities, four and only four
		Some who comment on Pascal’s wager argue that there are several parts to the one wager argument while others think that there are multiple arguments within the few pages of the wager while still others argue for both views.
		Pascal’s wager is an appeal neither to man’s scientific prowess (to competence at factual inquiry) nor to his “better self” (to human idealism), but to rational self-interest.
		Pascal’s Wager as an argument for God’s existence does have a logical consistency to it if (and this is a large if) the Wager is somewhat narrowly defined and the audience to which it is addressed is very narrowly defined.
	www.trinitysem.edu /journal/5-1/5_Petersons_PascalsWager.htm (5821 words)

	Seed: The Odds of Discovery
		Scientific lore is replete with wild wagers recorded in laboratory logbooks and ridiculous prizes hinging on intensely serious studies.
		Ladbrokes opened betting for two weeks on five scientific problems—the discovery of the Higgs boson, source of high-energy cosmic rays, life on Titan, feasibility of nuclear fusion, and the existence of gravitational waves—offering odds to the public on whether any of these outstanding issues would be settled by 2010.
		The odds, however, were less a reflection of the likelihood that a given scientific feat would be accomplished than a reflection of the average person's opinion about the likelihood of success.
	www.seedmagazine.com /news/2005/10/the_odds_of_discovery_1.php (697 words)

	Online Betting
		Simon was a prolific skeptic of environmentalism, yet nothing that he ever wrote had as much impact on the course of culture as his wager with Ehrlich.
		The earliest scientific wager on record was between the astronomers Johannes Kepler and Christian Longomontanus in 1600.
		The value of responsible wagers on the future is so ingrained in some large research institutions that simple systems were created to track them.
	www.directoory.com /Betting/index.html (1374 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: About the Website
		These parts show that one of the main assumptions of Pascal's wager, that we cannot know the truth or falsity or religious claims and are thus forced to make a wager, is false.
		When one makes a wager to believe, then one becomes morally responsible for the propagation of suffering that Christianity have been bringing and will continue to bring upon the world.
		With scientific creationism and intelligent design creationism, they are trying to bring science, and the world, back into the dark ages where faith and ignorance reign supreme.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/pascal.html (1641 words)

	Category:History of science - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The history of science tracks and assesses not just isolated scientific developments and their genesis.
		Rather, it also traces changes and developments in: the epistemological assumptions underlying science, its techniques, standards of proof, and institutions; in the scientific method; the common understanding of empirical knowledge; and paradigm shifts.
		The history of science also engages with non-western scientific traditions and the relationship between science and society.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Category:History_of_science (110 words)

	Amazon.com: Wager: Books: Metsy Hingle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The path to healing and self-acceptance lends this marvelous depth and believability as she struggles with the past and with issues of the heart.
		Wager was a well written book with just a few slow parts.
		Wager is a good book for anyone wanting to read of romance and mystery.
	www.amazon.com /Wager-Metsy-Hingle/dp/1551668262 (1780 words)

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		Scientific Games Racing has always been on the leading edge of terminal introductions that coincide with important industry developments.
		Scientific Games Racing also works with Scientific Games Systems to develop terminals that have cross-applications in both the racing and lottery/racino worlds.
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	www.scientificgames.com /sgcorp/parim_autotote_specia.asp (239 words)

	Wager
		A rebuttal guessed right to any form of Wager of the PASCAL, a rebuttal that theists requires to leave several of its belief caressed on God and/or sky if they must save his logic, demonstrating in the process that unbelief can be the safest bet after all.
		In "betting the impossible bet," Harmon Holcomb III discusses that wager of the PASCAL he is structural incoherent, that would be successful of another way, and that the critic of Oppy of wager in "in Rescher in Wager of the PASCAL" is vitiated trusting presuppositions of "logicist".
		But only its invocation of infinite utilities could make wager "incoherent," and if these are permissible, still wager wagers is defeated by the "many objections of the Gods" and "many".
	wagers.netfirms.com /wager.htm (721 words)

	The Death Wager (II)
		Pascal's Wager, therefore, is a surprisingly cynical way for believers to analyze their motivations for belief.
		Of course, they want the atheist to hold such a low standard, perhaps equating scientific thought to mere number-pushing, or perhaps they are really that careless with their own lives.
		Christianity is a religion of death : founded on animal sacrifice and its replacement, the death of "Jesus", imposes a burden of guilt on man's natural instincts, demands execution for many sins, demands the death of man to the "world", and makes man's death the sole motivation for salvation.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/atheism/116877/1 (416 words)

	The Wager - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is in reply to your inquiry on the question of the rotation of the sun and the earth in relation to each other, namely, whether the sun revolves around the earth, or the earth around the sun, and which view is to be accepted, etc.
		On the contrary, the conclusion of contemporary science is that regardless of any future scientific advancement, the question as to which is our planetary center, the sun or the earth, must forever remain unresolved, since both view[s] will always have the same scientific validity, as stated.
		Of course, on the elementary and high-school level, science in general, and the so-called Solar System in particular, is taught from relatively simple textbooks, and the change in the scientific attitude towards the subject under discussion is not emphasized.
	www.chabad.org /therebbe/article.asp?AID=73253 (1177 words)

	Culture Makers \| Environmental Wager
		The theory is the all-but-unanimous scientific consensus that human beings are changing the climate by emitting gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere, and that if we do nothing to change our behavior, the warming trend that has taken hold for the past century may well become a runaway gallop.
		Unfortunately, there is another politically loaded issue where scientific agreement has failed to convince the public.
		If evangelicals mistrust scientists when they make pronouncements about the future, it may be because of the history of antagonism between biblical faith and evolution.
	www.culture-makers.com /articles/environmental_wager (768 words)

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	No Sure Bet: Two Replies to Andy Crouch’s “Environmental Wager”
		scientific gathering later this month, “This statement is simply dishonest.
		scientific and public policy debates surrounding climate change, the question is not
		His wager is a false analogy to Pascal’s.
	www.interfaithstewardship.org /content/printarticle.php?id=150 (911 words)

	Wager_publications
		Wager, T.D., Waugh, C., Lindquist, M.A., Fredrickson, B., Noll, D.C., and Taylor, S.F. The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in anxiety and emotional resilience.
		Arienzo, D., Wager, T.D., Ferrera, J., Romani, G.L., and Hirsch, J. Somatotopy of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Supplementary Motor Area for tactile stimulation of the hand and the foot.
		Wager, T. D., Smith, E. E., Casey, K., Sokolik, A., Granovsky, Y., Cohen, J. D., Rilling, J., Davidson, R.J., and Rose, R. Placebo reduces the BOLD fMRI response in the anticipation and experience of thermal pain.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/psychology/tor/Posters.htm (954 words)

	The Reasons to Believe
		Medieval philosophy was dead, and theology was sneered at by the new intellectuals of the 17th century's scientific revolution.
		Once it is decided that we must wager; once it is decided that there are only two options, theism and atheism, not three, theism, atheism and agnosticism; then the argument is simple.
		Whatever the correct answer it is only finite, and it's very reasonable indeed to wager a finite bet on the chance of winning an infinite prize.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0002.html (6105 words)

	Galileo to Shelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Each of these works helped to push the study of Mathematics to new heights as well as contribute to the scientific movement as a whole, by breaking new ground.
		Pascal’s wager as well as his defence of Jansenism helped to support the view that there is a God.
		He added that even if there is no God, the odds say that you stand a better chance of coming out on top if you believe in his existence.
	dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca /~inx416/pascal.html (476 words)

	wager - Related Topics wager Resources for wager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sports betting definition for Wager, including NFL football, college basketball Examples: Ned made a sports wager on the Mavericks to beat the Spurs.
		Pascal's Wager - an came to you with Pascal's Wager, how could you possibly choose cannibal serial killers), then the Wager is meaningless.
		Wager is one of Vancouver's most experienced and successful classic rock bands, Wager performs a wide range of rock and rhythm & blues from the 1950s to today
	www.tradesquare.co.uk /search.php?keywords=wager (537 words)

	PADI The Way The World Learns To Dive
		Each expedition aims to conduct scientific research, and to assist the communities in the areas they visit.
		Whilst this is being conducted the diving team will search for, locate and survey the wreck of HMS Wager, which sank in 1741.
		The story of the Wager is a classic, not only because of the involvement of Midshipman Byron, the grandfather of the famous poet but also because the repercussions of the subsequent mutiny lead to the formation of the Royal Marines.
	www.padi.com /english/pil/news/01896451 (168 words)

	Apologetics.org - "Meeting Darwin's Wager" Christianity Today Article on Michael Behe by Thomas Woodward
		He is short, balding, and has thick, dark-rimmed glasses; he looks as much like a hardware-store clerk as a scientific renegade.
		Since the Behes decided seven years ago not to keep a tv in their home, the Behe children have found time for reading good books, learning karate and piano, and singing in the church choir.
		Instead of ignoring Behe, as many tried to do to Phillip Johnson, both the media and the scientific establishment are paying close attention to the feisty biochemist at Lehigh.
	www.apologetics.org /articles/wager1.html (1912 words)

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