was descartes right about his prrof of god?

Question

how wass he proven wrong?


i know he didnt prove the existence of a particular god but he proved that the universe and us must have come from some type of creator or deity. and was he correct in his proof?

Answer 1

No. He said that God exists as idea in the mind with no connection to the external world, therefore it's existence could not be doubted. The idea of a God did come from experience with the external world, where humans had to find an explication to all the mysteries of the world (Why does it rain?, What is our purpose in this world?, Where did everything come from?,etc.) And the explanation we could come up with was all we could with the resources (human form, knowledge of nature, etc.) that first, we thought of creators like ourselves but more powerful, then of one all-mighty deity. The lack of an explanation to the external world was what led us to the idea of a God, so there is a connexion with the external world, proving Descartes wrong.

Answer 2

such subject can take pages. what descarte presented was rather a hypothesis or a hint or asuggestion but not a proof. we can argue,for example like this:taking the existing things on earth , we can devide them in classes . the lowest class is matter.next come the plants :they are matter plus life; then the lower animals(corals, sponges etc.) they are matter plus life plus nervous system.then higher animals (insects mammals except human beings they have everything in common with the former classes plus well defined body systems ,mobility ,sens of danger etc. finally we arrive to the human being who has everything in common with the formers plus the reason (or may be the soul and the reason) (because they say that animals have alife but not a soul (the soul being immortal;this also needs a proof). so if we do not stop the succession we have to suppose that there may be an element or a being who has everything in common with the former links of the chain plus something that we will never be able to understand untill a donkey succeeds to understand albert einstein.
we can also use the reasoning by the absurd: take the space
and imagine you are travelling through it at the speed of one billion light years per second,where will you arrive? your mind can not accept that you will never reach an end. yet, if you eventually reach one then your mind can not accept this because it will ask what is behind the end!? This goes for time as well . if it has a biginning then what was before the biginning so time has no biginning . if it has an end then what is after the end? so time has no end so if you can not solve the mistery of time and space why can't you accept the mystery of God as a third factor existing but beyond our understanding?

Answer 3

He loved those simplistic solutions to everything, but all too often they were self-fulfilling. "I think, therefore I am" could just as easily have been said "I am, therefore I think". He was just too simplistic. If we have an idea of god, therefore there must be a god to have an idea about? Well, yes and no. Perhaps, for many people, god is just an exaggeration of what we are as people. I like Descartes, but all in all, his proofs only go so far.

Answer 4

Nope.