Descarte's Analysis, Criticism, and Inference from God

Descartes’ viewpoint on God is an infinite essence, eternal, unchangeable, self-existent, omniscient, omnipotent and creator of every other creature. His statement from the ontological argument to prove God is not so new and its attraction refers to the fact that he justifies his mechanistic and geometric viewpoint from the world by resorting to proving existence of God; accordingly, in Descartes’ philosophy, God has no ontological status but His status is epistemic which, therefore, provides a deep gap with the real God. Descartes believes that God has created world as a huge device from moving objects and has released it by its own to continue its movement that is addressed by the opponents’ criticisms. The question about Descartes view about God is that whether God is existential and real, Descartes’s belief is religious or God has been mostly proposed to guarantee the certain knowledge and to illustrate the Descartes’ worldview with a mechanical and geometric method. This paper is an attempt to analyze this question and to criticize Descartes’ viewpoint by some western scholars and Muslim philosophers.