Moody Institute of Science

The Moody Institute of Science (MIS) was a production company for pro-creationism and anti-science media, spun off from the fundamentalist Moody Bible Institute. MIS's leader and film director was pastor Irwin A. Moon (1907-1986).[1][2] Its successor was Discovery Media, which now appears to be defunct. MIS produced films from 1938 to roughly 1972.

The divine comedy
Creationism
Running gags
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Blooper reel
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Moody was also responsible for bringing an appreciation of science to the fundamentalist Christian community; prior to the films, it had been widely believed among fundamentalists that science led "directly to atheism".[1]

They produced a lot of quite mainstream science films that they infiltrated into public school classrooms and the US military[3] — always taking time to say that God was responsible. MIS's infiltration in the opposite direction, fundamental Christianity infiltrated by science, can be viewed as the precursor to intelligent design.[3]

Footnotes
  1. Rev. Irwin Moon, 78, Science Film Producer by Kenan Heise (May 24, 1986) Chicago Tribune.
  2. "Something Different in Science Films": The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement by Marsha Orgeron & Skip Elsheimer. The Moving Image Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1-26 | 10.1353/mov.2007.0025.
  3. The Moody Institute of Science, Irwin Moon and ‘Scientific-Evangelicalism’ in the US Military by Samuel Reid
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