Descartes and Lucretius: Nothing Can Be Created out of Nothingness

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Descartes and Lucretius
Rene Descartes in his work, meditation on the first philosophy sought to understand truths about the things he believed in and bases his work on metaphysical theory. Lucretius in ‘De Rerum Natura’ where he explores the nature of things bases his work on atomism and existence happening by chance. Descartes and Lucretius agree that nothing can form out of nothing but differ in the fact that the latter argues that existence is dependent on emptiness and matter and therefore God does not exist.
Descartes argues that nothing can come from nothing and the same is held by Lucretius in ‘De Rerum Natura’ and this implies that all things that are true stem from something that is certain and inadmissible. If things come from nothing then they could come at random times and ways making their source uncertain and unreliab...