When the facts don’t support the faith, and all arguments have been dispelled, when a person in 99% sure there is no God, there is still one last reason people want to believe.  The 1% chance that hell is real.  A hell where people suffer for eternity is too much of a terror, even if it is a remote chance, to risk being wrong.  To cover eternity’s down-side, if all we have to do is an hour of church on Sundays and a token adherence to some creed, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.  It shouldn’t surprise us that this train of thought is named after a mathematician/philosopher, Blaise Pascal.  The return on investment is enormous.  Think of how long eternity is.  A trillion years is a blink of an eye.  Eternal bliss just for believing in God.  Now that is a great deal!  All of humanity is silly for not taking this bet.

This is only a short summary of this topic.  To find out more, please get Why Adam and Eve Created God.