lville88

In today's Washington Post this article cites a Russian scientist that has scientifcally proven the parting of the Red Sea was possible. Sorry I know very little about the bible, so I cannot judge the rational of his argument but I liked this line:

Ineteresting point of view...god invented science even though science can't prove the existence of the thing that invented it.

Yangja Isuko

he doesn't exactly make any scientific arguments.


or sound credible in the slightest.

lville88

I agree. No offense to Russians but you see "scientific" miracles coming out of there way to much, i.e., the girl with x-ray vision the other day.

Doctor X

Oh really?!!! They dumbfounded the Great Amazing Randi with their miraculous charged water that they can detect and can heal everything until someone tries to actually test it!!

Now THAT is a miracle. . . .

Not to mention the two women who could tell an entire person's history from a photograph. They were exact with the photograph of Ted Bundy . . . only missing some minor biographical details such as he had died and was a serial killer. . . .

Anyways . . . I do not have the text in front of me and I am on the "slow ass modem," but "Red Sea" does not actually appear. It is the "Sea of Reeds" or "Sea of Destruction" and it is a mythic entity. Of course, since no evidence exists that an Exodus/Conquest happened--and evidence exists that they did not--make this whole exercise as relevant as trying to prove that plagues of locust happen.

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--J.D.

Steven Carr

Not really. 600,000 people take just 4 hours to get across, with such a strong wind blowing?

lville88

Maybe they had a tailwind.

CX

All such discussions as these are silly since they presuppose the historicity of mythic legends and then try to "back into" a scientific explanation from there. It's rather like coming up with a scientific explanation for the cursed tiki episode of the Brady Bunch.

Doctor X

Look! You can question the Bible, but you cannot question the Brady Bunch!

Millions upon millions of viewers witnessed the miracles and, today, witness them again.

The Bradys have touched the lives of millions.

It is clear that something special must have happened to launch and sustain the Brady Bunch.

--J.D.

Doctor X

["Poof!"--Ed.]

Amos

So did the Ten Commandments and that should have never been allowed in a nation under God. Fact is that the parting of the waters led people to hell, or hell by any other name such as the desert where they wandered for 40 years while torn in the saved sinner complex and died nonetheless in the end because they failed to mature as son of man and therefore died as child of God.

Edited to clarify that children of God must mature to become "sons of God" which is equal to "son of man" or "man in the image of God."

If this is true the promised land was their purgatory where they spend the rest of their life and therefore spend what should have been their eternal life now in hell.