Divine Intervention in Biblical Myth Explained

1 October, 2010 at 21:41 | Posted in Science | Leave a comment
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Always interesting when science can confirm old myths and legends. Of course a divine intervention like this had a physical manifestation, how else would it have happend?

Wind could have parted Red Sea: Biblical tale of Moses ‘may really have happened’

By Tom Kelly

The dramatic parting of the Red Sea for the Israelites is perhaps the most spectacular miracle described in the Old Testament.

Now scientists believe it may actually have happened – although it owed more to Mother Nature than to Moses.

A computer simulation suggests that a powerful east wind, blowing for 12 hours overnight, could have driven back shallow waters for four hours allowing a crossing in an area near that depicted in Exodus.

Read more: Wind could have parted Red Sea: Biblical tale of Moses ‘may really have happened’ | Mail Online

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