Comments for Polluted Water, Polluted Culture at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 18 May 2013 03:24:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3115 When I was five my grandma took me to see Walt Dysney's Fantasia. The state of the world today reminds me of Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, masterfully put together around Duka's music. Poor Mickey tries to use magic to get his chores done and things get awfully out of hand. Only God can run this world properly: we are the keepers, not the owners of the vineyard. And what is most important, if we keep running things without God. We will kill ourselves. - Chuck Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:50:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3112 In order to "Love what is true" we must hate what is false... 2 Timothy 4: 2 proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. - Lynda Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:02:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3111 Yes there are other possible contributing factors to the fish irregularities. The stream in Colorado was a micro-example. The US Geological Survey just published a much broader overview of this phenomenon nationwide, which found that one third of male smallmouth bass and one fifth of the male largemouth bass are intersex (male fish producing eggs). In covering this study, the AP said the problem is “linked to women's birth control pills and other hormone treatments" Hope this helps. - Matt Hanley Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:01:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3108 If it is not emperically provable exactly what the material cause and effect of a specific case at 5400 feet altitude is... the much bigger truth stands, we are polluting our culture with materialism and scientism and relativism. St. Agustine said love of self to the contempt of God is the city of man. Excellent article, the ideas don't need test-tube evidence to resonate in the heart and soul of humanty, thanks very much. - Achilles Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:03:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3107 Amazing….we hear so much about environment, but never this. It is just off limits. I guess the lesson here is that champions of the environment will have their pills come hell or high (or toxic) water - Vern Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:02:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3105 Howie, good point, but what wasn't mentioned here is that the study was done in the stream below the discharge from the sewage treatment plant. Watershed studies is a small part of what I do, and pollution from pharmaceutical and personal care products (called PPCP's) is the growing concern in pollution of our watersheds. It is a conundrum for those who are genuinely concerned about our environment, but who also support contraception. This is a crack in the Left coaliton in the making. - Tyler Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:01:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3104 There used to be many small settlements above Boulder (Gold Hill to name one) populated by pill culture types, plus thousands of campers. In the high country excretion runs down hill and right into the local streams. That is off the point, which is really about "science" being applied for specific (political) ends. Back in the Fifties, the Commies outlawed the concept of the Big Bang, too close to creation. It didn't fit the world view that gave them power. Don't look now, but ... - Watcher Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:00:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3103 Yes. There are quite a few sources of estrogens polluting our rivers and streams. However most of the serious effects on animal life have taken place where there is a high amount on human sewage. This is significant. I wonder if there are any studies that could confirm chemically the concentration of these products and if they are of human origin. That might be a provocative cause and effect relationship for our politically correct society. - Willie Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:59:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3101 America, a land hooked on drugs, indeed. Bishop Sheen wrote, "It has always struck me as strange that we should pardon a wife, on the grounds of "temporary insanity," for limiting her married life by shooting her husband, and at the same time glorify the same wife as a "progressive free-born woman" because she limits her family by stifling an unborn life. All of which goes to prove that we do not need new laws but expansion of the definitions of old ones, and particularly of the law of murder." - Joseph Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:58:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3100 The moral point of this essay is well taken. Nature can only brook so much dissent. The science is somewhat fishy. How many estrogen pill taking-mountain stream polluting women live above the 5400' elevation of Boulder? Could not the abnormalities in fish of the study be caused by a surfeit of estrogen from other sources? A Google search on 'estrogen pollution' reveals many. - Howie Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:06:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3099 This article provides support for those who would prefer prudence to haste when scientists devise ways to alter fundamental human biology. Can Dr. Hanley provide his readers with links to sources providing scientific evidence of the presence of estrogen in the water supply? This will assist his readers in bringing this matter before the public. - Ars Artium Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:05:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/polluted-water-polluted-culture.html#comment-3098 A compelling and well written piece. One must wonder if any other problems such as the demographic rise in autism is related to these steroids. To even suggest such a thing is so publically incorrect! To be PC is to engage in tyranny because truth doesn't matter. We have more and more drifted by way of the new regime into the philosophy of Rousseau, whereby the elites in control determine the truth. This new found Enlightenment may very well lead to disease, nihilism and family destruction. - Willie Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:51:22 +0100