When I was a child I remember having a vivid imagination. One Sunday morning, when I was but a mere four years old, we learned about the devil at Sunday school. We were taught there was an evil being with incredible power that loved nothing more than for people to do wrong. He was a tyrant of the underworld and if the world was not saved and sanctified then he would possess their souls in hell for eternity. Well after being completely terrified my mother consoled my tears and explained there was such a thing, but with a righteous heart and devoted spirit that God would be the answer for any harm.
             As I have matured and graced the threshold of adulthood I have continued to cling to this wisdom. Still, it puzzles me. Can such a creation be true? If so is there any justification for his being? I have came to the point where it does not bother my knowledge. Instead I have chosen to live as I see fit and what is considered just. Various applications of thought have rested on this since the beginning of time. Rene Descartes, a renowned scholar of philosophy, has also hypothesized such views. His meditations on philosophy have inquired minds for centuries and formed the base for deeper sights into the unknown.
             Descartes' First Meditation on doubt challenges the theory of existence. He reconciles all of his former beliefs into a scientific perspective in order to test them for logic. In this process he analyzes his senses, questions dreams, and debates the ideology behind a living God. In addition to these, Descartes concludes his reasoning by the existence of an evil demon. He forms this due to the principles of balance. "I will suppose, then, not that there is a supremely good God who is the source of all truth, but that there is an evil demon, supremely, powerful and cunning, who works as hard as he can to deceive me" (118). Furthermore, the thoughts of a body and physical objects are revoked. In reality they are o...