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And that's only the natural sciences Mempho.
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Well, forgive me, but I'm gonna pick on you for a second. I really think that people cop out with the whole natural sciences deal. They just shirk it off as unbelievable and move on and they never consider the scientific possibility.
Exhibit 1- The Red Sea
The idea that the parting of the Red Sea is unexplainable is not true. It is easily explainable.
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From Exodus 14:
19 Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, 20 coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
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Alright, the Egyptians are pursuing the Israelites and the Israelites have their backs to the wall and they're outnumbered. We can ascertain from the Bible that it was cloudy at one of the camps and clear at the other camp.
Look at a map of the Red Sea, the crossing point is likely to be on the northern end of the Red Sea in a region called the Gulf of Aqaba since they were trying to escape for Egypt. We know that there was an army base blocking an escape route due north (from evidence that still stands today), so they didn't have an escape route. Here's the map:
We also know that the wind is blowing really strong from the east. We also know that this area (the northern Red Sea) has what is primarily a northwest flow. This means that the wind direction was coming from the opposing direction of the flow and that it was very strong.
A strong east wind blew the water back and it did not happen instantenously quite some time.
This storm was likely a small-scale hurricane. Average water temperatures in the area easily support such a storm.
The likely point of crossing was a mid-sea shelf that is in existence today:
The walking distance across the sea at this bridge is 10 miles wide.