Scientists released a report today suggesting that the miracle described in both the Bible and the Koran of MOSES parting the Red Sea may have been caused by Mother Nature.
Scientists in Colorado released "Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta," which is a "hydrodynamic explanation" for Moses leading the Israelites as they fled Pharoah’s chariots across the ocean floor.
The scene was rendered indelibly on the big screen in The Ten Commandments where CHARLTON HESTON portrayed Moses.
The scientists used computer modeling to reconstruct the parameters of winds and wave. They discovered that a strong east wind blowing on a shallow coastal lagoon in northern Egypt for a 12 hour overnight period could move cubic tons of water aside so one could walk across on the exposed mud flats.
"The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," Carl Drews, the lead author of the study told media.
"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."
But then scientists waffled, saying the event may not have happened at the Red Sea but a coastal lagoon in the Nile Delta, then called the Lake of Tanis.
A similar event to the miracle happened at Lake Tanis in 1882 when British Army Major-General Alexander Tulloch wrote "a gale of wind from the eastward set in and became so strong that I had to cease work."
The following morning the lake "had totally disappeared…and the natives were walking about on the mud."
