The dolphin is a lovable animal-that swims and dives in the water in a very playful way. It is related to the whale and gets to be about five to eight feet long. It is a mammal and breathes air; it can drown if it is under water too long. It has long been known as “the friend of sailors” and it has been known to keep a drowning man alive by hoisting him up on its nose when the man is trying to swim.
The dolphin swims in the sea and is an intelligent creature. It has a brain that is closest in size to man’s, and it is known that one dolphin will speak to another in a language that man does not understand. It is for this reason that when the government was interested in exploring “space", they called upon the telephone company to try to learn the strange language of the dolphins, in case they had to speak to someone in “space". To do this they obtained a baby dolphin, and the plan was to raise this dolphin just like a little child. They contacted a girl from New Jersey who agreed to be a friend and spend all her time with Baby Dolphin. But there were problems!
The first problem was that the dolphin loves to swim in the water, and the girl soon found that if she spent all her time in the water too, her human skin dried out; so she had to keep covered with skin cream.
Next, they found that the dolphin has a brain that is divided into two parts. One part stays asleep while the other part is awake. This is God’s way to keep the dolphin from drowning, as always one half of his brain is working. The poor girl, on the other hand, could never get enough sleep. As she tried to sleep on the dock, the playful dolphin would come up and splash water on her and want her to come swimming too!
Next, the telephone men built a plastic shield so the girl could get rest. This didn’t work, so a little hut had to be built because the dolphin would never stay still, and loved to splash and swim in the water.
The next job for the telephone men was to teach the dolphin to speak. They had a microphone and taught the dolphin to respond to over 300 words. He was a very intelligent animal. Next they put the microphone into the water to talk to the dolphin, and hopefully the dolphin would answer back in “dolphin” language.
They used word scrambling techniques and all of those things that the phone company uses to put more calls on wires going overseas. They thought that they were making real headway!
Then with the war in Viet Nam, the whole program came to a sudden end as the government was spending over a half-million dollars on the project, and then the funding stopped.
The telephone company spent a vast amount of effort and money trying to make men and the dolphin understand each other. How different it is that God has spoken to us so that we can understand His mind and His will for us. Though He was God Himself, the Lord Jesus became a man and dwelt among us so that we might know His Father as the only true God. Though we were sinners far from God, He gave Himself to redeem us and bring us back to Him.
The Bible tells us that “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on Him.” John 3:3636He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36).
ML-11/26/1978