[Gizmodo] Scientists at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research have made a video on how Moses could have parted the Red Sea. Its interesting stuff:

From Gizmodo:

First, the team lead by NCAR’s Carl Drews says that Moses and the children of Israel couldn’t have been camped by the Red Sea, but in a lake next to the Mediterranean sea called the Lake of Tanis. The Red Sea is too big and deep to be parted by any known force of nature except, maybe, Steve Jobs. The lake of Tanis was created by a now-gone branch of the Nile River called the Pelusiac Nile.

Following the oceanographic data, the NCAR team created a model of the lake’s basin and applied fluid dynamics to simulate the effects of strong winds. When a wind is strong enough and blows for a long enough time in the right direction, water inevitably recedes from the upwind shore, “exposing terrain formed underwater.” This is known by scientists, and now you, as the wind setdown effect.

Using the computer simulation, they calculated that:

• a 63mph easterly wind
• blowing for 12 hours straight
• could have exposed a 2 to 2.5-mile long and 3.1-mile wide land passageway.

Of course, this is a little different from Exodus’ epic description:

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry, and the waters were divided.