How God Does or Doesn't Exist from Descartes and Lockes' Point of View
             Ever since the beginning of time, man has raised the same questions over and over again; is there a higher being than us? Is there something immense out there? Could there even be a way for a Supreme Being to exist? Descartes says yes, there is a higher being, something much more immense. On the other hand, Locke is a skeptic who thinks that you'd have to see it to believe it. Descartes, being the man to first discover Analytic Geometry, and Locke, being the first of the classical British empiricists, are both very smart and full of intellect and opinion. I cordially invite you to read on and see how these two men could conceive such wonderful and interesting thoughts of doubt and theory.
             Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, there were many philosophers, but the Frenchman were the first to conjure up the first great philosophical system of the modern period. Descartes was one of them. He thought the church made an enormous mistake in the Galileo episode, and he was a bit confused about the thinking process of the church. So Descartes formulated something that he wanted to keep a secret from the church. He wrote his ideas about physics into a book of philosophy, called Meditations, which, later on, he dedicated to "the Most Wise and Illustrious Doctors of the Sacred Faculty of Theology in Paris."(p.132). There were a total of six meditations in which he explains Physics.
             In the first Meditation, Descartes chose a method of "radical doubt", who's motto was "De omnibus dubitandum,"- everything is to doubted. Descartes would doubt away anything that could be doubted for the slightest reason, until he could come up with a proposition that was logically indubitable. This proposition, if it existed, would be the foundation of all knowledge. He took for example his hands, and wondered if they w...