Also released in slightly different form as “Voice of the Deep”. this vintage Moody Institute of Science film explores the nature of sound in the deep sea. The film charts the early use of undersea hydrophones to listen to sounds beneath the sea, and the invention of sonar at the 6:00 mark. At 6:17, hydrophones at Chesapeake Bay are shown in 1942, used for national defense, detecting croaker fish. At 7:58, Moody Science explorers are seen getting into a deep sea diving suit to record the first ever underwater sound motion picture. At 10:00, the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Marine Laboratory is seen, cataloging hundreds of sounds made by different species using a spectrograph. At 13:40, dolphins are seen performing at Marineland, and a study shown of a dolphin’s ability to distinguish items underwater is made using sonar. At 20:30, humpback whales are seen producing underwater calls. At 22:54, a Nagra or similar tape recorder is seen being used in the field to record underwater sound in the arctic using a sonobuoy.
In its conclusion, the film examines a whole series of conclusions that were wrong in “matters of life and death importance”.
The Moody Institute of Science (MIS) was founded in 1945 by the Moody Bible Institute and Irwin A. Moon as an evangelical group that used science demonstrations to preach to the masses. A California pastor who had been using science experiments in his sermons since the early 1930s, Moon believed that the marvels of science provided visible evidence of a divine plan of creation. In the late 1940s, MIS—with Moon as their director—began producing a series of technologically innovative, often riveting, and always religiously motivated science and social studies films. These films provided a religious interpretation for science, offering their viewers—in the church as well as in the American military, the public school system, and industry—a glimpse of a natural world so complex that it could only be explained, according to the films’ narrators, through the existence of a higher power or an intelligent designer. By 1956, these Creationist science films were used in 389 school systems in 46 states.
The Moody Institute of Science was a production company for pro-creationism and anti-science media, spun off from the fundamentalist Moody Bible Institute. Its successor is Discovery Media. Moody’s role in the history of creationism is underappreciated
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