Equally well known is Pascal's Wager.

I would wager it was probably about 200 years ago.

And I'll lay a wager that barely anyone in the West believed them.

I would wager that their IQ is exactly the same as the average evolutionist.

The Obama administration has staked significant political capital on the wager that Myanmar s promise may finally bear fruit. And, indeed, the rate of change in Myanmar over the last two years has been nothing short of remarkable.

Our current political and economic institutions rest upon the wager that a decentralized market provides a better social planning, coordination, and capital allocation mechanism than any other that we have yet been able to devise. But, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, part of that system has been a central financial authority that preserves trust that contracts will be fulfilled and promises kept.

Most Indian politicians wear rings with stones tailored to specific planetary conjunctions that are providential for them, or designed to ward off malefic influences from planets unfavorably situated on their birth charts. Many swear it works for them others take the agnostic view that one has nothing to lose by indulging such beliefs, except the price of the ring a sort of Hindu version of Pascal s famous wager.