yeah I'm sure wind can do that. Storms in Perth make the river higher and I go windsurfing thru where there is normally waist high reeds, big deal.
but, believer or not, one must acknowledge
(1) it says parted, not pushed back from the shore. Big difference. I bet that different terminology existed in Hebrew also.
(2) it was to escape their pursuers. Now if you push the water back a little way from the beach and run thru the mud, won't your pursuers just run along the beach say 100m (or 13 cubits
) adjacent to you? The whole point is they ran thru the middle of the ocean and then the sea closed up so the pursuers would have to go
around (or get drowned). If the water simply
receded back from the edge, due to the wind, they would not have had a magical wonderful escape and there would be nothing to write about!
(3) wind can do that so why write a big story that prevails for 2000yrs if all that happened was a big wind pushed water back from the edge (as opposed to
parted by God or something, which
would be worth writing home about)??
Also, wouldnt the original documents note the wind? I mean seriously, 12hrs of
60knot winds would probably have been written in other documents by authors unware of the magical sea crossing, or mentioned in the original bible manuscripts - they were not dumb and knew a strong wind could move water. Duh. It was written about because something unexplained happened OR it was all made up and nothing happened. Either way the wind theory is redundant.
"US researchers" they say? Like many studies, the title should be "Propellorheads who've never had a girlfriend, wasting Govt grant money to bash out a thesis to get a useless doctorate"
. Do what they want and get away with it [}:)]. Who moderates the moderators hey
It's a conspiracy I tell you 
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