It’s a miracle!
Scientists have proven a bonafide miracle: Moses and the Israelites happened to be on the shores of the Red Sea at exactly the moment when a wind gust came by to separate the Sea so that they could pass:
In a computer model, Drews was able to simulate what might have happened at the Red Sea just before Moses started a journey that lasted for 40 years. After modeling a body of water that resembled the waters trapping Moses and the Israelites, Drews enforced the laws of physics and applied a wind stress to the water body.
“What I did was use a wind, sort of the strongest wind that I thought … a mixed group of adults and children could walk straight into,” Drews says. This amounts to about a 63 mph wind — a medium-strength tropical storm, as measured by the scale the National Hurricane Center uses.
But this is different from other tropical storms that occur frequently around the world.
“The wind blows on the water, and it stacks it up at the other end. The opposite component of wind set-down is called storm surge,” Drews says. He proposes that there was a bend in the body of water pointing east, and as the water shifted, it separated at the point of the bend, leaving a gap there.
I love these naturalistic explanations – they are so much more far-fetched than an actual miracle from God. It is getting to the point that materialistic scientists need much greater faith than believers.
…because God couldn’t have acted through a ‘wind stress’ to part the Sea? In this case, and the cases of all other miracles, science can only probe the ‘how’, not the ‘Who’ or ‘why’.
Well, thinking “scientifically”, this wind stress would need a cause too. If God wasn’t going to arbitrarily intervene to directly part the waters and give his chosen people an easy way to get through, why would he arbitrarily intervene to directly cause a windstorm that parts the waters and gives his chosen people a difficult way to get through? (I can’t imagine walking against a 100 km/h wind is particularly fun).
So we have to trace all the way back to the beginning of the Universe, probably, and take advantage of God’s omniscience. Unless modern science is missing something major.
The bible says it was a strong East wind. Are they saying they have proved God could have done it that way? Good to know. Any word on the pillar of fire? Now that would have been cool to see!