# "A SERMON FROM SCIENCE" UNDERWATER SOUNDS IN THE SEA MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE 49514

Produced by the Moody Institute of Science (MIS), a production company for the pro-creationism Moody Bible Institute and headed by pastor Irwin A. Moon, A Sermon From Science is a late 1960s or early 1970s educational film that shows the developments made in recording the underwater sounds of the seas (while situating it in a Christian context). The film opens with a shot of the sun sitting just above the sea, reflecting off the water; this is followed by footage of coastal scenes and underwater shots of schools of fish swimming around reefs. The film features some close-up shots of certain fish, including lionfish, jellyfish, and seahorses. As the narrator discusses the sounds from the different cultures of man, the film shows footage from a number of different cities from around the world (02:28), as well as clips of people playing music and dancing. Viewers then see an early prototype of a vacuum tube and microphone (04:14), which would lead to the hydrophone. A man lowers a hydrophone into the water to record sound. A croaker fish swims by a hydrophone (07:13). A team from the Moody Science Institute rides out from L.A. on a boat (07:33); a diver puts on diving gear and goes below the water to make an underwater recording of the ocean’s sounds. Footage shows schools of fish and includes corresponding audio; viewers see dolphins and a sea turtle (which bites at a hydrophone). At the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Marine Laboratory (09:42), scientists analyze…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Science, Religion, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/49514-a-sermon-from-science)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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