Tag: Paddy Power
Betting On God
by Ron Gold on Nov.04, 2008, under Religulous
It could be deemed sacrilegious, but an Irish bookmaker is taking bets that God exists. As the terms read, “scientific proof must emerge by 31st Dec 2009, to confirm his omnipresence in order for bets to be deemed winners.” According to the odds, the likelihood of there being a God has decreased dramatically thanks to Richard Dawkins:
Odds on the existence of God have shortened from 33-1 to a mere 4-1 since news emerged of atheist Richard Dawkins’ forthcoming bendy bus advertising campaign with the slogan: “There probably is no God.”
Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have already taken £5,000 on scientific proof emerging for the existence of God after the book opened at 20-1 earlier this year to coincide with the switching on of the world’s biggest halogen collider in Geneva. When scientists were forced to delay the £14 billion project for six months, odds on the existence of God lengthened to 33-1.
But the bendy bus campaign, to be launched on buses in the Westminster district of London in January, has led to a spate of betting that proof will emerge for God’s existence after all, forcing Paddy Power to shorten the odds to a mere 4-1.
