Posted on 04/05/2006 3:00:07 AM PDT by S0122017
Jesus could have walked on ice, says Florida State Researcher April 4, 2006 11:47 AM PDT
A large, somewhat rare piece of floating ice in the Sea of Galilee may explain one of the signature events in Christian theology, according to a report from Florida State University.
Doron Nof, a Florida State professor widely known for his studies on ancient lakes, says in a study published this month that cooler climates in what is now Northern Israel combined with the unique environmental chemistry in the body of water (known as Lake Kinneret to ancient Israelis) could have lead to the formation of large, floating sheets of ice.
A sheet of ice would have also been unobtrusive from shore, the study adds.
Ice formation in the region is rare. Under normal conditions, ice may only form once every thousand years. But temperatures were lower in the region 2,000 years ago, raising the odds that ice could have formed every 30 to 160 years.
"As natural scientists, we simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years," Nof said in a prepared statement. "We leave to others the question of whether or not our research explains the biblical account."
Nof also did not address how someone could have surfed on a sheet of ice.
The study appears in the April 2006 Journal of Paleolimnology, a scientific publication that addresses the reconstruction of lake history. Posted by Michael Kanellos
Fast forming pudding.
If you want to discount the story, isn't it just easier to say they made it up? It's not like we have film of it to explain.
Oh come on! >:-\
If this was April Fool's, it's rather untimely.
It's a good thing he didn't get cold feet!
In fact the atheist position. Check out this story on some of the "free thought" forums. No one is latching on to this one.
It is simply pork-barrelling. No "Darwinism" involved.
how ironic that a parable about faith trying to be explained away by science.
next they'll say he was icefishing and was fined by the DNR for too many walleyes.
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