1. In general, students should make use of accumulating evidence to synthesize points that are consistent with the prompts. For instance, what the accumulating evidence is for logic, order, simplification, experimentation, accuracy and doubt have been discussed. Those are the precursors!

2. In some cases there was too literal of mapping of the Prime Mover on to Descartes God for injecting motion. The two are different. Read This (http://www.jstor.org/stable/639643)

3. Descartes Principles and Newton's Laws are not very similiar - Descartes really knows nothing about the physics of motion, he just assumes that a small number of principles exist.

4. There are many examples of student proclamations saying "Descartes belives this ..." without providing any of his quotes as evidence for you to make this statement. For example:

Descartes believed that humans are distinct from Nature and that only man is endowed with a mind and the ability to act freely. Animals, by contrast, do not have reasonable minds and they are essentially intricate artificial machines.The belief that humans possess a special place in the world and have the ability to use the mind as separate from the body mirrors the connection of humans to a perfect God.

These are all reasonable statments but would be much better if some evidence was used as well.

5. The Universe can be ordered without the need for a divine being!

6. Most of you did not incoporate Kant into Prompt C but that would have helped and the material was there. In fact, to quote from plato. stanford.edu

He (Kant) thus sought to locate the concept of God within a systematically ordered set of basic philosophical principles that account for the order and structure of world (this is similar to Descarte's view)

7. Remember, perfection in terms of perfect circles exists in the ancient world, Aristotle, and continues through Copernicus. It is Kepler who empirically shows this is not the case. The use of math gives the perception of perfect and precise and the Clockwork Universe is best manifest as Kepler's Third Law (left out by most of you)