the existence of god has been argued by a person
other arguments for the existence of god have been proposed by st anselm  who formulated the first ontological argument  ibn rushd lrb averroes rrb and thomas aquinas  who presented their own versions of the cosmological argument lrb the kalam argument and the first way  respectively rrb  ren 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