University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 27. 1990
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Priest says God beyond the universe
By Bryce J. Tache
Kansan staff writer
The first moment of existence in the universe cannot be pinpointed, a Benedictine priest told more than 200 people last night at the Kansas Union.
Stanley Jaki, a priest and professor at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., spoke about the universe, religion and science at a lecture sponsored by the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
"One thing everyone wants to know is how old the universe is," he said. "The science can never estimate the first existence of existence in the universe."
Jaki said that many so-called philosophers spent an unnecessary amount of time debating how many universes there were.
"There is only one universe," he said. "If you have two universes and they are in interaction, then they form one universe. If they are not interacting, then they don't exist at all, according to definition."
The universe is a respectable object of the intellect. Jaki said.
"It is nothing you can measure with a yardstick," he said. "You can sit to the edge of the universe extend your legs into what is beyond."
What is beyond,he said,is God.
What is beyond, he said, is God. "God is absolutely independent of the universe, superior to the universe," he said. "You must have the property we human beings have that we call personal consciousness," Jaki said.
Some people doubt the existence of God because of the world's imperfections. He said this questioning was unfounded.
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"There is nothing imperfect in the material world," he said. "Everything is purely rational. But we might not have the technology to understand that rationale."
Matthew Davis, Paola junior, said,
"He soundly refuted the old thinkers and some of the modern philosophers as well."
Theresa Downing, Wichita junior,
found Jaki's speech easy to follow.
"Not knowing anything about quantum mechanics, I found the speech very insightful," she said. "The idea of one universe and his ideas of God were fascinating."
Pioneering study
Jan Malty, Wetmore freshman, takes advantage of yesterday's nice weather to study by "The Pioneer" statue adjacent to Fraser Hall. Higher temperatures should continue today with an expected high of 58.
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changes in the library's valve system needed to be made to accommodate the system.
reference purposes, have not mal- functioned,
Hu said the high temperatures potentially were harmful to the copy machines and computers in the library. The copy machines periodically have been malfunctioning, but whether the temperature is the cause is unknown. The computers, used for
Hu said temperatures on level three, where the computers are situated, were in the mid-80s. Warmer readings were taken on level four, where administrative offices are located.
She said the library's windows could not be opened.
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In the March 8 Journal-World, syndicated columnist George Will describes as "preposterous" the belief that "any improvement in health, wherever marginal, is worth any cost to, the economic vitality."
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Says Mr. Will: (As) "Economic vitality provides jobs, wealth and other satisfations. . . It is crude biological materialism to assert that health and longevity are values superior to all others." Because "the condition of the infrastructure is . . . dramatically connected with economic vitality," Mr. Will thinks President Bush should "spend in order to conserve and expand" our infrastructure.
Mr. Will's refrain about health versus economic vitality already has been used here by dignitaries attempting to justify their willingness to let the public pay for, say, recruiting alien corporations and expanding the airport when we need better schools, nursing homes, day-care facilities and police protection.
The March 11 New York Times notes that because motor vehicles "add to smog, deplete ozone in the stratosphere where it helps shield the earth from damaging ultraviolet rays. . . (and) cause acid rain . . . (the) air quality in major American cities has . . . continued to worsen. In the 1986-1988 period, 101 metropolitan areas did not meet the standards on ground level ozone pollution, up from 64 that were not complying in the 1985-87 period." As a result of "Americans driving more miles than ever," our country has "ever-denser traffic, ever-longer delays and ever-sickier air."
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