Computer Simulation Shows Winds Parting Red Sea
I found this on BBC News: Science/Environment where you can read the entire story and view a computer simulation of how 63 mph winds could force the waters apart and hold them apart long enough for Moses and his people to cross the Red Sea.
Computer simulations show how the movement of wind could have parted the waters of the Red Sea
New computer simulations have shown how the parting of the Red Sea, as described in the Bible, could have been a phenomenon caused by strong winds.
The account in the Book of Exodus describes how the waters of the sea parted, allowing the Israelites to flee their Egyptian pursuers.
Simulations by US scientists show how the movement of wind could have opened up a land bridge at one location.
This would have enabled people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety.
The results are published in the open-access journal Plos One.
The researchers show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon. With the water pushed back into both waterways, a land bridge would have opened at the bend, enabling people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety.
As soon as the wind died down, the waters would have rushed back in.
The study is based on a reconstruction of the likely locations and depths of Nile delta waterways, which have shifted considerably over time.
“The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus,” said the study’s lead author Carl Drews, from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
“The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics. The wind moves the water in a way that’s in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in.”
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The wind not only would have parted the sea but could have blown away prophet Moses PBUH and the israelites as well so no one would have crossed the sea
IF we accept that the wind blew away the sea and the Israelites crossed on Mudflats surely the flats needed lengthy time to dry and harden to withstand the weight of the people on it
It is not only the matter of seawater to deal with but once the sea parted what guarantees are there that the bottom is cross-able and not full of canyons or coral reef if we believe that the Red sea was the parted sea
The Red sea was separated from the Mediterranean sea by land mass til the Suez canal was dug in the late 19th century ,so in essence there was no need for a parting of the sea for the cross over , it could have been done on land towards Sinai
Some scholars think it was the Nile river that was parted and the word sea is used to refer to the wide Nile . To this date Egyptians refer to the Nile as the great sea
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Daggero, what I think is cool is that so much of what our books tell we don’t truly understand. I love it that scientists look at ways it COULD have happened. We probably will never know how the miracles truly occurred, but I love it that there are ways to verify how they could occur. 🙂
It also occurred to me that, according to the Bible, there would have been a LOT of people crossing, and animals, and it would have taken a long time to get them all across.