Christmas for thought

While I was at home for Christmas I read this review of books about Rene Descartes in an old borrowed New Yorker. Descartes was the philosopher best known for his "I think, therefore I am," saying. According to the article, the philosophical slogan was mistakenly believed to reflect an argument against the existence of God, and Descartes' belief in subjectivism. But this is what Descartes had to say:

"When I consider the fact that I have doubts, or that I am a thing that is incomplete and dependent, then there arises in me a clear and distinct idea of a being who is independent and complete, that is, an idea of God. And from the mere fact that there is such an idea within me, or that I who possess this idea exist, I clearly infer that God also exists, and that every single moment of my entire existence depends on him. ...And now, from this contemplation of the true God, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and the sciences lie hidden, I think I can see a way forward to the knowledge of other things."

Merry Christmas everyone.