He considers the idea of God, a supremely perfect being, just as real as the idea of the existence of any shape or a number. His understanding of God's existence is no less clear and distinct than his proofs for the existence of any shape or number. Therefore he adds, "although all that I concluded in the preceding Meditations were found to be false, the existence of God would pass with me as at least as certain as I have ever held the truths of mathematics...
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308). Initially, this might not be all clear, and may have some appearance of being a sophism. He argues that unlike other things he might persuade himself that existence can be separated from the essence of God, and hence that God can be thought of as not existing. He adds that ?when he thinks of it with more attention, he clearly sees that existence can no more be separated from the essence of God, than the fact that its three angles equal two right angles can be separated from the essence of a triangle, or that the idea of a mountain can be separated from the idea of a valley' (Pg...
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Apologetical Causation Argument It is impossible to conceive of a necessary object or being not in existence. All contingent objects must have a cause. It is a scientific fact that all things in the universe have an age...	3 / 699
theological arguments Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is directed by the archer...	2 / 369
Cosmological God Positing the existence of God, then, raises as many problems as it solves, and so the cosmological argument leaves us in no better position than it found us, with one entity the existence of which we cannot explain...	4 / 845
Aquinas' 2nd Argument Therefore, the series could not go on forever because then there would be no first efficient cause, and consequently nothing afterward would exist. For instance, in a billiard’s game the player strikes the white ball with his cue stick...	3 / 724