Posted on 09/22/2010 7:16:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CBS also reported it here :
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20017140-501465.html?tag=stack
SUMMARY
In Exodus, Moses parts the Red Sea, saving the Israelites out of Egypt and slavery. It may be that he had some assistance, according to a computer modeling study of fluid dynamics by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado in Boulder.
According to a posting on the UCAR website:
The computer simulations 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 along the Mediterranean Sea. 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.
Read the full article explaining the findings :
https://www2.ucar.edu/news/parting-waters-computer-modeling-applies-physics-red-sea-escape-route
May be?? Duh. That is main point of the biblical story for crying out loud.
Any purely by chance it only happened once and on the very day Moses needed to cross. See, science can explain everything! /s
Sea of Reeds
Let me see if I understand. The Bible says God caused a strong wind to blow, parting the waters. The computer modeling and the animation show that a strong wind could have parted the waters.
Yup, that sure proves the biblical account is wrong alright.
BTW, evidence of chariots and men has been located at the bottom of the Red Sea near a place that is called Wadi Watir.
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm
WHY is a government-sponsored university doing research on this? The Bible is clear on the Red Sea account, but no, the Fedzilla has to spend money to combat God Almighty. I am telling you, the mother of all civil wars is coming to this country.
After the incarnation, everything is easy. If someone doesn't believe that, then no amount of scientific explanation will convince them.
Moses crossed the “Reed” Sea not the Red Sea. This is one of the many mistakes in Hebrew translation. http://www.hotstockmarket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62736
“The computer simulations show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back”
I’m not sure how convincing this “scientific” explanation is. Yes, the waters hypothetically could have been pushed back, but that wouldn’t have made the river bed dry enough to safely walk on. The term “mud city” comes to mind.
Concerning that disability, they are deep in de Nile.
Would it be possible to travel under such a wind condition? It seems to me that a wind strong enough to clear a path through the waters would knock people off their feet.
God did it, no doubt; but how is likely to remain a mystery!
RE: Any purely by chance it only happened once and on the very day Moses needed to cross.
A lot of things happen without explanation. Just last week, we had a freak storm that caused a mini tornado that battered New York City and destroyed thousands of trees in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.
That storm just lasted over hour or so and disappeared soon after.
There was a woman who was driving her car near Forest Hills. She stopped her car under a tree going in to the Grand Central Parkway because the rains were too heavy and obscuring her view. She thought it would be safer to do that instead of attempting to enter the highway under such conditions.
Guess what ? The tree where her car was parked under was uprooted by the winds and crushed her and her car. She died tragically.
Who would have thought this would happen?
If there was a 63 MPH wind pushing the water back, wouldn’t it have been difficult to walk through mud flats?
Just curious
*experts are uncertain whether they actually occurred.
Archeologists and Egyptologists have found little direct evidence to substantiate many of the events described in Exodus.*
It happened a few thousand years ago. I’m guessing the physical evidence would’ve been gone after a few decades.
The Egyptians are not likely to have chronicled their humiliation.
I believe the Word of God of the word of man.
I think the authors are nuts, but if I understand their hypothesis correctly, the wind would have already died down, after sustained gale like winds for nearly ten hours, by the time Moses and the Israelites got there. The momentum of the water rushing back would have taken enough time for them to cross, but not enough time for the Egyptian army to cross over also.
In a nutshell, they are claiming a rare physical event combined with extraordinary luck produced the event.
The glaring error is that the land bridge would have been exposed by the time Moses encountered it, which is at odds with the Biblical account. But that's an easy fix once you have a workable theory. All you have to do is say the participants couldn't possibly understand physical laws of science and so they naturally interpreted the event as divine intervention and glorified the account.
additional:
Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta
[ Exodus computer modelling ]
Public Library of Science [ PLoS ONE ]
September 2010 | Carl Drews and Weiqing Han
Posted on 09/21/2010 8:30:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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