Did Moses really part the Red Sea? Experts reveal a scientific basis for Bible story

Both Christian and Jewish people regard Moses’ parting the Red Sea as one of the most impressive miracles of God — or is it? New research points to a scientific basis for the religious myth.The biblical tale so goes that Moses, a prophet of God, commanded the deepest waters of the Red Sea, to open a path for the Israelites to flee an oppressive Egyptian pharaoh — whose troops were soon swept away by incoming waves.Achieving this, however, wouldn’t necessarily demand divine intervention, according to experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.They claim that winds blowing at the right speed and angle could feasibly have opened a channel, allowing people to pass on foot — and subsequently swallowing anyone on their heels once the winds gay way, with tsunami force.Oceanographer Carl Drews told Daily Mail, “The crossing of the Red Sea is a supernatural phenomenon that incorporates a natural component — the miracle is in the timing.”Computer models predict such a phenomenon would require winds of more than 60 miles per hour to hit the water at a very specific angle, blowing open a tunnel of water 3 miles wide.“When a strong wind blows southward from the head of the Gulf for about one day, the water is pushed seawards, thus exposing the bottom that was previously underwater,” said Nathan Paldor, an ocean scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.The tale of Moses parting the Red Sea is said to have taken place in the Gulf of Aqaba, which separates Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula from Saudi Arabia and the south of Jordan.

This section of the Red Sea is one of its deepest with a maximum of 6,000 feet down.However, geological research refutes these accounts as no amount of storm-force winds could help people across the treacherous Gulf of Aqaba.The story also states that the winds which blew the sea apart had come from the east, while scientific calculations specify the wind would have to come from the southwest.Instead, archaeologists ha...