If you want to transport maybe 200 people not in hurry, that may not be a problem but when you want to transport a nation that is be
ING pursued nuance hostile enemy, Divine intervention is necessary. It is not a myth
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Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 12:40 pm
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [ModeratorsCircle] FW: Scientific Explanation of the Parting of the Red See in Exodus
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Good morning madam,
From a geographical point of view, parting the waters was never necessary. According to the same bible, Hagar, the handmaiden of Abram and Sarah was an Egyptian and this shows that there must have been ebbs and flows of people from Egypt to Palestine across Sinai for ages before the Hebrew patriarch. A land bridge, so to speak, always existed at Port Said. Indeed it was not until the middle of the 19th Century AD that Ferdinand de Lesseps constructed the canal through the isthmus of Suez to link the Mediterranean and the Red Seas.
I salute the Hebrews and Jews for creating myths that has helped bond their peoples over millennia. Among any set of people, such myths have always had elements of miracles and wonderment. Our own folks, Igbo and Yoruba have plenty. It is however to be noted that writing has helped others propagate their myths while ours have remained local and vanishing. We will need data from outside the bible and its derived tracts to validate the parting of the waters. Equally we will need such verifiable data to make the Oduduwa story more that a Yoruba myth of origin. Merely repeating the same myths will not validate them.
Best regards,
Adeniran Adeboye
On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) wrote:
Greetings!
This is a BBC Report. The more some atheist and agnostic scientists try to disprove the existence and miraculous power of God as in Biblical Accounts of Event, the more they expose their ignorance and the futility of their denial of the presence of God, even beyond Biblical times.
Whether it is tsunami or the natural wind pattern that parted the waters of the Red Sea or the
, they have not explained why: Sea ofReeds
i. the 63 mph wind had to blow just at the time to synchronize the approach of the Israelites at the banks of the
Red Sea ?ii. it had to be Moses – the Prophet of God and the leader of the Israelites for the exodus - to command the Sea to close up
on the Egyptians, and not by the natural tidal phenomenon of the Sea, ebbing and flowing?
iii. the parting of the
Red Sea or any other Sea, for that matter, has not happened again, either in those ancient times, since then, or in recent history?
There have been tsunamis that left unaccountable destruction in their wakes. But there was no record of such destruction by the
Red Sea , except what it was commanded to do.
According to Albert Einstein - the world's foremost Scientist and Physicist - in one of his Booklets, entitled: "WHY I BELIEVE IN GOD" who said, that in all of his experimentations, there is always an inexplicable something, - something he could neither understand nor explain - and that is what he called: GOD! – the HAND OF GOD! Scientists of nowadays have to accept and believe in God, even if it is only on Albert Einstein's stance.
Sincerely yours,
Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs)
Subject: Scientific Explanation of the Parting of the Red See in Exodus
21 September 2010 Last updated at 19:29 GMT
Computers show how wind could have parted Red Sea
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Computer simulations show how the movement of wind could have parted the waters of the
Red Sea New computer simulations have shown how the parting of the
Red Sea , as described in the Bible, could have been a phenomenon caused by strong winds.The account in the Book of Exodus describes how the waters of the sea parted, allowing the Israelites to flee their Egyptian pursuers.
Simulations by US scientists show how the movement of wind could have opened up a land bridge at one location.
This would have enabled people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety.
The results are published in the open-access journal Plos One.
The researchers show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon.
63mph winds from the east could have pushed the water back at an ancient river bend
With the water pushed back into both waterways, a land bridge would have opened at the bend, enabling people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety.
As soon as the wind died down, the waters would have rushed back in.
The study is based on a reconstruction of the likely locations and depths of
Nile delta waterways, which have shifted considerably over time."The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," said the study's lead author Carl Drews, from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
"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."
The study is part of a larger research project by Mr Drews into the impacts of winds on water depths, including the extent to which
Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges.By pin-pointing a possible site south of the
Mediterranean Sea for the crossing, the study also could be of benefit to archaeologists seeking to research the account.A way through
In the Book of Exodus, Moses and the fleeing Israelites became trapped between the Pharaoh's advancing chariots and a body of water that has been variously translated as the Red Sea or the
. Sea ofReeds
The Biblical account says that, as the Pharaoh's army followed, the waters rushed in
In a divine miracle, the account says, a mighty east wind blew all night, splitting the waters and leaving a passage of dry land with walls of water on both sides.
The Israelites were able to flee to the other shore. But when the Egyptian Pharaoh's army attempted to pursue them in the morning, the waters rushed back and drowned the soldiers.
Other scientists have also sought to explain the account through natural processes.
Some have speculated that a tsunami could have caused waters to retreat and advance rapidly. But the scientists behind the latest research point out that such an event would not have caused the gradual overnight divide of the waters or have been associated with winds.
Other researchers have focused on a phenomenon known as "wind setdown," in which a particularly strong and persistent wind can lower water levels in one area while piling up water downwind
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [ModeratorsCircle] FW: Scientific Explanation of the Parting of the Red See in Exodus
How are you and the family. Long time no see.
Your position naturally assumes that the bible story is true, word for word. Be that as it may. The idea of a NATION being pursued, while spiritually romantic, does not include the measure of the handicap. Even in modern times, we often have to deal in war situations with secret paths, detours, and decoys. I will not be surprised if Al Qaeda claims that Allah has been leveling the mountains to let them pass to safety while raising the same mountains immediately to block the pursuing troops, over the last decade or so. Even I know how to move masses of people in Western Nigeria to Dahomey without being anywhere near Idi-Iroko or Seme. By the way, would the Israelites in Egypt have numbered more than the peoples in towns and villages that Biafran troops rapidly evacuated as federal forces were inching closer? Ha, ha, if you call that divine intervention, what would you make of the massacre of some of those who were not so evacuated? Divine cooperation with federal forces?
Scientific discoveries will forever continue to try to remove the fog from our vision of existence. If we let blind faith stand in the way, we'll have ourselves to blame for our advancing retrogression while the rest of humanity is making progress at an unprecedented rate.
Peace,
Adeniran Adeboye
On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:56 PM, TITUS FOLAYAN wrote:
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