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Today's Christian, July/August 2004
Can Science Prove the Red Sea Miracle?
According to a new study, yes.
From QuickTakes
Most people are familiar with the parting of the Red Sea, either from the biblical account (Exodus 14:21-31) or from the spectacular sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 movie classic The Ten Commandments. But now, two Russian scientists have a new theory about this old miracle.
Naum Volzinger, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, wanted to learn the natural conditions that could have caused the sea to part. So he and a colleague spent six months modeling mathematical equations. Their study focuses on a reef that runs the length of the Red Sea.
Volzinger says a 67-mile an hour wind, blowing all-night long, would have left the reef high and dry. And, he says, it would have remained that way for about five hours. "It would take the Jews-there were about 600,000 of them-four hours to cross the 7-kilometer reef that runs from one coast to another," he estimates. "Then, in a half-hour, the waters would come back."
The study, which took almost six months to complete, is titled "Modeling of the Hydrodynamic Situation During the Exodus" and was published recently in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Says Volzinger: "I am convinced that God rules the Earth through the laws of physics."
Source: CBN.com, Jan. 4, 2004.
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July/August 2004, Vol. 42, No. 4, Page 11
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