The biblical story where Moses separates the Red Sea in two parts and makes the passage for the Israelites maybe happened with the help of some very specific weather conditions. A new computer model that was used for this study used all available data of the time, and it suggests that the strong wind separated the sea into two parts which allowed Moses and the Israelites to escape. But it also says that it didn’t happen in the Red Sea but in the nearby region of the Nile Delta.
According to the Old Testament, the Israelites were trapped between the approaching army of Pharaoh and the Red Sea, but the strong east wind that blew all night opened a passage through the sea, allowing them to escape. When they passed, the water pulled back and thus drowned Pharaoh's soldiers who were following them.
The computer simulation has confirmed the possibility that the passage was created in the place where water was 6, 5 feet deep and wind blew 62 m / h. In that case, passage would be about 1.8 miles long and about 3 wide, and it could have remained open for about 4 hours, which would give the Israelis enough time to pass.
Principal investigator Karl Davis, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado said: "People have always been fascinated by this historical story, and asked whether it is true or not. Now we can finally tell them that it has a basis in the most ordinary laws of nature."
There are several other theories that scientists have put forward, including hurricanes and tsunamis, however, this is the first that fully agrees with the description from the Bible.
source: news.sky.com
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1 comments:
Other than the Bible, there is no evidence this story is historic. It may be possible for all the things to come together to blow a path through a shallow sea at the right time in the right place, but not very probable. Yeah, God was supposed to help, but how does one prove that? And is 4 hours really enough time for the number of Hebrews claimed to pass through?
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