 Still, we need to contend with the passage in which Descartes says that God was free to make the radii of a circle unequal, and with the passages in which Descartes says more generally that God is free with respect to each and every thing that He does. One way to read these passages is to make the assumption that Descartes has a libertarian conception of divine freedom and then conclude that if Descartes says that God is free to do something, there exists the possibility that He do it and also the possibility that He do something else (perhaps the  opposite).[16]  Descartes himself appears to understand divine freedom in very different terms, however. He writes,