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[quote]Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Koran, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, show wind could push water back at a point where a river bent to merge with a coastal lagoon, the team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder said.
"The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," Carl Drews of NCAR, who led the study, said in a statement.
"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."
Religious texts differ a little in the tale, but all describe Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt ahead of a pharaoh's armies around 3,000 years ago. The Red Sea parts to let Moses and his followers pass safely, then crashes back onto the pursuers, drowning them.
Drews and colleagues are studying how Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges and other effects of strong and sustained winds on deep water.
His team pinpointed a possible site south of the Mediterranean Sea for the legendary crossing, and modeled different land formations that could have existed then and perhaps led to the accounts of the sea appearing to part.
The model requires a U-shaped formation of the Nile River and a shallow lagoon along the shoreline. It shows that a wind of 63 miles per hour, blowing steadily for 12 hours, could have pushed back waters 6 feet deep.
"This land bridge is 3-4 km (2 to 2.5 miles) long and 5 km (3 miles) wide, and it remains open for 4 hours," they wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE.
"People have always been fascinated by this Exodus story, wondering if it comes from historical facts," Drews said. "What this study shows is that the description of the waters parting indeed has a basis in physical laws."
Details of the model described can be seen at [url]https://www2.ucar.edu/news/parting-waters-computer-modeling-applies-physics-red-sea-escape-route[/url] and [url]http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012481[/url].[/quote]
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Sounds unlikely. I appreciate a scientific explaination to parting the sea but it is more likely they just made it up
I sea...
Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.
Moses was Jewish.
Well they spell Qur'an as Koran.
Bollocks.
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;24975216]Well they spell Qur'an as Koran.[/QUOTE]
And some people spelt Koran as Korean, which I find an odd mistake to make.
Or maybe nothing in the bible actually happened...
Or maybe this is all bullshit.
[QUOTE=dass;24975492]Or maybe nothing in the bible actually happened...[/QUOTE]
A lot of events that happened in the Bible really happened though. I'm not talking about the supernatural stuff, but there is a lot of confirmed history.
[QUOTE=dass;24975492]Or maybe nothing in the bible actually happened...[/QUOTE]
There is actual proof of the Red Sea parting, but not that it literally created 2 walls of water, but a tsunami caused a submerged land bridge to be shown and allowed them to cross.
Plus they found supposed chariot pieces at the location of the submerged land bridge.
[url]http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33168[/url]
[QUOTE=stewe231;24975632]There is actual proof of the Red Sea parting, but not that it literally created 2 walls of water, but a tsunami caused a submerged land bridge to be shown and allowed them to cross.
Plus they found supposed chariot pieces at the location of the submerged land bridge.
[URL]http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33168[/URL][/QUOTE]
Lol did you really just cite World Net Daily?
[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;24975664]Lol did you really just cite World Net Daily?[/QUOTE]
It was just the first source I found.
[QUOTE=stewe231;24975703]It was just the first source I found.[/QUOTE]
You should have looked a littler further on, it's pretty clearly bullshit. I googled it, half the sources were "666soon" or "answersingenesis", and the other half discussion of the bs. Here, look: [url]http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chariot-wheels.htm[/url]
Nevertheless, the chariot wheel might have ended up there through a number of other various reasons other than splitting the whole damn sea.
[QUOTE=Kazumi;24975824]Nevertheless, the chariot wheel might have ended up there through a number of other various reasons other than splitting the whole damn sea.[/QUOTE]
Nevertheless, there almost certainly is no chariot wheel, so it's a moot point.
[quote=Bertrand Russell (1952)]
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
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God parted the red sea for Moses.
[QUOTE=Phoenix Ashes;24976728]God parted the red sea for Moses.[/QUOTE]
it even says so in the book
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Now if someone had just found [i]any[/i] evidence that moses actually existed, this could have been an explanation.
you know I have a jewish encylopaedia, and it says that there was a strong wind and a low tide and that's how they were able to get across, I don't remember there being any mention of him actually parting the sea
not that that I believe in any of it, that's just what I read.
It's funny how people bitch at people to leave other religions alone and keep their opinions to themselves, and then turn around and rage on another religion. I couldn't care LESS what you think of my religion-yes, you, Mr. internet polizei, with his knuckles showing from his grip on the mouse.
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;24975216]Well they spell Qur'an as Koran.[/QUOTE]
There are different systems of romanization, you know.
"with his knuckles showing from his grip on the mouse."
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what does that even mean
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fuckin cunty ninja :ninja:
[QUOTE=abcpea;24976897]it even says so in the book[/QUOTE]
I hope they don't mess up the movie.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuMy8QVcrCQ[/media]
This is what moses did.
[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
Idiots are the ones that actually believe it by how its worded.
[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
No, not really. Except for Revelation, most of the Bible isn't actually written in metaphorical language.
Which is another reason why the vast gaps between denominations makes little to no sense.
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