Fundamental Theorem for God's Existence - Descartes'

This will BLOW your mind.

René Descartes (March 31 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a prominent philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he absurdly tried to prove the existence of God through his writings in Meditation.

Descartes started his proof by classifying ideas and thoughts that was flowing in his mind to determine which of them are truth or false. Amongst them are images of objects, volitions, emotions and judgments. He then classifies his ideas by their origin. Some appear innate, while others appear adventitious and he must have invented the rest. He realized that his ideas ‘of what a thing is’, ‘what truth is’ and ‘what thought is’ seems to come from his own innate self. His Cartesian method of thoughts was used to discover the source of the ideas and rearrange them to form logical explanations. However, Descartes believed that his senses could not be trusted. He reasoned that human beings are inclined to believe in the reality of external material things due to their bodily senses, which ultimately dictates our flow of thoughts.

Descartes established a method, which he called, the Systematic doubt. He said that he has all the reasons to doubt, being in this sensible world, where there is a high probability that things in it might be unreliable. But it is more pertinent to note that he was actually looking for certainty through doubt, and eventually removing the doubt that he has established earlier.

Eventually, he reasoned to a conclusion, which gave birth to the famous quote "Cogito Ergo Sum"--I think; therefore, I am. He concluded on the fact that in order to doubt one must be a thinking thing, meaning that one must be thinking in order to doubt. A thinking thing must be a thing that exists. Thus, Descartes being a doubter established the fact that he is a thinking thing, and therefore, is an existing being.

Descartes further comprehend and claimed that a doubter is an imperfect being, explaining that an imperfect being could not have founded the idea of perfection. Perfection must be something that is intuitive and rooted from a being ‘thing’ that is perfect. A ‘perfect’ being must have all perfect properties, such as omni benevolence, omnipotence, and omniscience. Thus, Descartes believe that his idea of perfection must flow from that fact that,

1. The idea of perfection exists,

2. Something does not come from nothing,

3. We are imperfect beings, since we are doubters, so the idea of perfection cannot come from thinking by ourselves,

4. Thus, a perfect being must exist,

5. Therefore, God must be that being.
________________________________________________________________________
bottom line : God must exist