walking on water, lmao.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/04/jesus.science.reut/index.html
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- The New Testament says that Jesus walked on
water, but a Florida university professor believes there could be a less
miraculous explanation -- he walked on a floating piece of ice.
Professor Doron Nof also theorized in the early 1990s that Moses's parting
of the Red Sea had solid science behind it.
Nof, a professor of oceanography at Florida State University, said on
Tuesday that his study found an unusual combination of water and atmospheric
conditions in what is now northern Israel could have led to ice formation on
the Sea of Galilee.
Nof used records of the Mediterranean Sea's surface temperatures and
statistical models to examine the dynamics of the Sea of Galilee, which
Israelis know now as Lake Kinneret.
The study found that a period of cooler temperatures in the area between
1,500 and 2,600 years ago could have included the decades in which Jesus
lived.
A drop in temperature below freezing could have caused ice -- thick enough
to support a human -- to form on the surface of the freshwater lake near the
western shore, Nof said. It might have been nearly impossible for distant
observers to see a piece of floating ice surrounded by water.
Nof said he offered his study -- published in the April edition of the
Journal of Paleolimnology -- as a "possible explanation" for Jesus' walk on
water.
"If you ask me if I believe someone walked on water, no, I don't," Nof said.
"Maybe somebody walked on the ice, I don't know. I believe that something
natural was there that explains it."
"We leave to others the question of whether or not our research explains the
biblical account."
When he offered his theory 14 years ago that wind and sea conditions could
explain the parting of the Red Sea, Nof said he received some hate mail,
even though he noted that the idea could support the biblical description of
the event.
And as his theory of Jesus' walk on ice began to circulate, he had more hate
mail in his e-mail inbox.
"They asked me if I'm going to try next to explain the resurrection," he
said.
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