In book iv, chapter x, “of our knowledge of the existence of a god,” locke makes a slight exception to his argument that knowledge is gained empirically. in at least 150 words, summarize how, according to locke, people can know that god exists. use details from locke’s argument to illustrate your summary.

According to Locke, no entity can be created unless an equal being created it in all terms, physically and mentally. Meaning, if we (humans) exist is because "someone" created us, and that person had the same mental and physical capacity to create life than those who created him/her. Hence, an all-cognitive being must have existed first (aka, God) since no alive being can be alive if not given life by another being. He bases this theory on the fact that, for instance, no animal can think like a human being, no matter can behave like an animal or feel like one, and so on. Hence, the fact that there exists "thinking matter" in the universe accounts for the fact that it has always existed: the first being from which all flows must be purely intellectual.