But God's angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives.

(Romans 1:18-21 MSG)

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I found the following piece on the web (http://www.apologetics.org/glossary.html) I could not improve on it, so here it is.

Pascal's Wager - Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a famous French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who truly sought to understand the meaning of his existence in this vast universe. Like any man of intellect, Pascal struggled with the concept of God's existence, saying, "I see too much to deny God, yet too little to be sure." Essentially, what he meant was that he saw the evidence of God's existence in the glory of creation, yet at the same time he perceived certain difficulties as well, such as the problem of evil. After years of contemplation, however, Pascal decided to become a Christian and follow the path of the Savior. His philosophical work, Pensees (Lit. "thoughts"), is one of the classic spiritual writings of all time. Anyway, for those suspended in agnosticism, Pascal devised the following formula, called Pascal's Wager, because ultimately it demands that one gamble (wager) his existence on one of the following propositions:

1. If God does not exist, and I believe that He exists >>> I lose nothing. Christian

2. If God does not exist, and I don't believe that He exists >>> I lose nothing. Atheist

3. If God exists, and I believe that He exists >>> I gain everything. Christian

4. If God exists, and I don't believe that He exists >>> I lose everything. Atheist

Essentially, Pascal is asking the reader, "Within the context of eternity, which is the safest of the following propositions?" The only winning position is #3.

Only "Fools say to themselves, "There is no God.."" (Psalms 53:1 GNB)

Selah