tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post272263835840913479..comments2024-03-25T14:09:59.347-05:00Comments on Augoeides: Parting the Red SeaScott Stenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-74354541505307485652010-09-23T03:51:55.206-05:002010-09-23T03:51:55.206-05:00Well, I highly doubt I could do it on a calm day. ...Well, I highly doubt I could do it on a calm day. However, if there's a storm going on or moving in I'm pretty good at raising or lowering the intensity of the winds, making them change directions, and so forth. And the Bible account sounds to me like there was in fact a storm going on when the crossing happened.<br /><br />Keep in mind, too, that wind from the east is the strongest in Sinai and Egypt, and that wind setdown of the magnitude needed for the model to work happens every so often as part of the natural weather pattern in that part of the world. That means the probability shift required to produce the effect on command is going to be lower than you might think at first. From Wikipedia:<br /><br />"Major-General Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch witnessed a wind setdown event on Lake Manzala <i>[One of the lakes in the 'sea of reeds' area - AQ]</i> in 1882. While he was surveying along the Suez Canal, a gale from the east blew in and continued overnight. In the morning he reported that Lake Manzala had receded 7 miles to the northwest, driven there by the force of the wind. The lake-bed was now mud, and the local fishermen were walking about among their grounded boats."<br /><br />I'm speculating that I might be able to do it, of course, based on working with the weather here in the Midwest where I live. But believe me, if I'm ever in that part of the world I'm going to give it a try and get some empirical data on how hard it really is to do.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-17279368442092259612010-09-23T00:53:17.277-05:002010-09-23T00:53:17.277-05:0063mph? Dude if you can conjure a hurricane in the ...63mph? Dude if you can conjure a hurricane in the desert, I just found a whole new bar to measure up to.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15009778570667265968noreply@blogger.com