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Q In the third Meditation, Descartes developed the first of two argments for God's existence, this one called the Cosmological Proof, claiming there is no other way to explain his having the idea of God than that God Himself gave it to him. Could we human beings have invented the idea of God? Why did Descartes think otherwise?

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There are many who believe that it is the men who have created the idea of God by superimposing those qualities on an unknown entity which he himself is incapable of realizing in his own life. Thus, the conception of God is the result of the process of negation, that is, men conceptualize God in contrast to his own finite attributes.