The Existence of God has been debated through an ontological argument .
Other arguments for the existence of God have been proposed by St. Anselm , who formulated the first scientific argument ; Ibn Rushd , `` Averroes '' , and Thomas Aquinas , who presented their own versions of the cosmological argument , the kalam argument and the first way , respectively ; René Descartes , who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary for the evidence of the senses to be meaningful ; and Immanuel Kant , who argued that the existence of God can be deduced from the existence of good .
Existence of God