Transcript of the Souvenir
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| Transcribed by: Eric Paddon, History teacher, County College Of Morris, New Jersey, USA | Date: 6 March 2005 | ||||
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 (Some initial
animation depicting geometric shapes, including a block gives
way to an opening shot that shows ocean waves breaking across a
beach. From right to left, a man walks across leaving his
footprints in the sand. Camera moves up into sky to reveal the
title card, then tilts down to show Reverend Billy Graham in
front of Mount Palomar Observatory)Billy Graham (On camera): They call it a window on the universe. This 200 inch telescope atop Mount Palomar in southern California. For on every clear night of the year, an astronomer, in the observer's cage high up in the silver dome, probes the limitless reaches of outer space. On sensitive photographic film, the big 200 inch eye has recorded the light of literally millions of stars. And the end is not yet. For centuries, philosophers and scientists have asked the question, where is the end? Where did it all come from? Of course, science does not know the answer to these questions. But we've learned enough. Through instruments like this. To realize that our Earth is a mere grain of sand on the vast seashore of the starry universe. (The image of a star field as seen through the telescope is shown) |
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 Graham
(V.O.): Out beyond the
familiar constellations that dot our night sky, and beyond the
distant star clouds and clusters of the Milky Way, which is the
edge of our own galaxy, are other galaxies. Island universes so
far from us their light has taken millions of years, traveling
at the speed of six hundred and seventy million miles an hour,
to reach us. Within the range of our present telescopes are one
hundred million of these galaxies. Each made up of billions of
stars. These giant systems are rushing away from us at fantastic
speeds. In fact, the more distant the galaxy, the faster it is
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 Graham (On camera
in a studio set with photographs of starfields behind him. As he
goes on, he walks into a physics lab):
Many astronomers believe that all these galaxies are the same age. And that they all started at the same place at the same time. As Lincoln Barnett, the gifted author of the bestseller, The Universe and Dr. Einstein, writes: "All the clues of science point to a time of creation. When the cosmic fires were ignited. And the vast pageant of the present universe was brought into being." The Bible says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." The Bible never tries to prove the existence of God. It assumes it. The problem is, too often man tries to subject God to the analysis of the laboratory. But we cannot put God in a test tube and say here is God, anymore than you can put a mother's love in a test tube and say this is a mother's love. Of course the evidences of God are all about us. At Palomar, we probe the limitless reaches of the starry universe, and with the microscope we can see a universe just as inscrutable, but so small, that our most powerful instruments can only scratch the surface. |
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 (View of California
Redwood Forest)Graham (V.O.): Man was made for fellowship with his maker. The Bible tells us that when he became a living soul, he was placed in a paradise and given the privilege of ruling over it. And the Bible tells us that in the cool of the day, Adam walked with God in the paradise garden eastward of Eden. Graham (On camera at base of redwood tree): When God made man, He gave him the priceless gift of freedom. Freedom of moral choice. A will of his own. He could obey or disobey God. He was not created a puppet or a machine. He had complete freedom of choice. And in the beginning, man chose to love and obey God. As a result, his life was a paradise. But one day, something happened. Man deliberately rebelled against God. He willfully broke God's moral law. And man's special relationship to God was broken. He began to suffer and die, as the disease of sin entered the human race. He lost the peace, joy and security that he had. The perfection of God's handiwork was stained. Eden became for man, a Paradise Lost. |
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This
transcript is taken from both the souvenir LP Recording of the
soundtrack and a copy of a condensed version of the film, as it
was featured in the Graham ministry's 1965 movie "World's
Fair Encounter."
(The view of a drop
of water as seen through a microscope)
Graham (on camera):
What more eloquent evidence of the Creator's hand? No wonder
many of our scientists say there must be a God. But there are
other evidences of God's existence, even stronger than the
universe in which we live. For example, there's the conscience
within every man. A warning light that flashes when we do wrong.
Who put this voice within man to warn him of moral danger?
Philosophers and even politicians discuss what is moral and what
is not moral. Where did this sense of morality originate? We
know it is wrong to murder, but how do we know it is wrong? It
is the God given voice of conscience within. Having accepted the
fact of God, the next question we ask is, what kind of a person
is He? We've already seen evidence that He is a God of order,
design and perfection. But when we pick up the Bible, we
discover that God is much more. The Bible teaches that He is a
God of righteousness and holiness. The Bible teaches that He is
a God of judgment. That He is so pure that no impurity can stand
in His presence. But more. The Bible teaches that God is love.
And it is because God is love that He created the human race.
(The sight of a
muddy river. Newspaper headlines are superimposed over the scene,
reading: "War Clouds Loom"; "Race Hatred Explodes";
"Crime Rate Soars")