Descartes claims that there are three kinds of ideas: adventitious, invented, and innate. The existence of innate ideas is the bedrock of Descartes’ system. Some innate ideas are the conclusion that you are a “thinker”, as well as mathematics, but the most important is our idea of God. He simply states that because the idea of God is not an adventitious or invented idea, the idea of God must be innate. The problem is tha

t Descartes gives no proof as to why this is true. Why can this idea not be adventitious or invented? Descartes’ idea is that people could realize that God exists without ever being told, just from knowing that the world around him or herself is too awesome to be exclusive of a Creator.

The question of the nature of the idea of God (whether it is adventitious, invented, or innate) is brought up again when Descartes talks about the idea of a perfect God. Descartes says that the idea of a perfect God is too perfect of an idea for a human to invent. It is implied that there could be a room full of intellectuals thinking about anything, and they would not think of a perfect being, a perfect God. The obvious retort is “why not?” How can you prove that men did not invent or assemble the idea of God? One way that I think you could assemble the

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