US scientist’s research pinpoints parting of Red Sea

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Parting of Red Sea
Carl Drews says Red Sea crossing was real.
Parting of Red Sea
Carl Drews says Red Sea crossing was real.

CARL Drews, an American scientist based in Colorado, says his research points to the location of the Biblical miracle of the crossing of the Red Sea.

The researcher, however, has never been there yet. His findings come from his research through Google Earth Pro imaging on his computer.

According to a news story, the technology can zoom in on the place in Egypt where Moses led the Israelites to the location where the Red Sea parted and thus provided them with an escape route from the Pharaoh’s army.

Drews says the location is in the Eastern Nile Delta, between Pelusim and Qantara and 75 miles north of the most popular theorized place in Egypt, the Suez Canal.

“One of the places right in the middle of the crossing shows what looks like a hotel and some type of building,” Drews is quoted as saying. “It would be fun to knock on their door and to say in Arabic, ‘Do you know that Moses walked right by here.’ It would probably elicit a form of disbelief. But perhaps people would say, ‘Well, maybe…’”

Drews, a member of Epiphany Anglican Fellowship under the Anglican Mission of the Americas based in Rwanda, said he had always been fascinated by the miracle in the Book of Exodus.

“For anyone who always believed this happened, somehow it’s still a thrill to see it supported by scientific finding,” he said.

The scientist took up the ‘Crossing of the Red Sea’ for his master’s thesis for his degree in oceanic and atmospheric sciences at the University of Colorado out of his enchantment with the miracle. However, he denied that his research is an attempt to explain the phenomena of the parting of the Red Sea.

“The science can only look at the physical aspects of it. ‘Explanation’ means somehow God didn’t do it and I don’t like those connotations. I think my research further affirms it happened. I think it supports the account,” he said.

According to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the study was part of a project into the impact of winds on water depths, including the extent to which Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges.

Drew and Colorado University oceanographer Weiqing Han analyzed archaeological records, satellite measurements and current-day maps to estimate the water-flow and depth that could have existed 3,000 years ago. They then used an ocean computer model to simulate the impact of an overnight wind at that site.

They found out that a wind of 63 miles an hour, lasting for 12 hours, would have pushed back waters estimated to be 6 feet deep. That would have exposed mud tracks for four hours, creating a dry passage about 2 to 2.5 miles long and 3 miles wide. As soon as the wind stopped, the UCAR’s statement said, the waters would come rushing back.

“Great are the deeds of the Lord…they are studied by all that delight in them,” Drews said referring to the Book of Psalms. “There’s an uneasy feeling that if you study (a miracle) that it might not be a miracle, but I don’t think that’s the biblical view. The biblical view encourages study of these events and, of course, the biblical writer orchestrates these for the benefit of his people,” Drews added.

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