Ridiculous Item of the Day: Jesus Walked on Water...Frozen Water
Besides the obvious absurdity in trying to explain the event with Middle Eastern ice just because his predisposition to Naturalism will not allow it, professor Nof's hypothesis fails to take into account Peter walking on the water as well until he looked around at the wind (remember, the disciples had been battling the sea all night because of winds...read: waves) at which time he immediately began to sink (through a hole in the ice, I presume?). If those were the conditions, Jesus wasn't walking...He was surfing, hanging ten on a chunk of frozen surfboard! Wipe out!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."
Look, if you can't accept the biblical account, fine. I understand. The Bible even says that it is a stumbling block to many who cannot believe. But please, give it up with the ridiculous attempts to explain it away. You look silly. Really silly.
What I find interesting is that Dr. Nof doesn't deny that something happened. He really can't. He just denies it was a miracle. Interesting.
Read the entire CNN story here.
NOTE [04-05-06]: My comments on this story were taken out of context on a couple of blogs. So for the record, I do NOT actually think Jesus was surfing. It was sarcasm...you know, sarcasm? Clearly by all of my comments on this post, I believe Jesus was actually walking on WATER...H20...agua. Thank you.
The Management.
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Labels: David C. Price
posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 4/04/2006 08:20:00 PM
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Interesting discovery!
Weak Argument: "If this, and this, and this, and this, then maybe this" It is sickening how much speculation gets written off as scientific "theory" or even "fact." It's just bad science. Actually it's not even science; it's propoganda! How could such an idea ever be falsifiable. The scientist said, "I believe that something natural was there that explains it." The key word there is "believe." What is going on here is not science but philosophy. Naturalism is not a science it is a philosophy. A requisite of a theory is that it has to be able to be proven wrong. How could anyone ever prove this "theory" wrong?
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