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Posted: 4/6/06 at 12:32pm
from a Washington Post article today...(not the whole article)
Floating Ice May Explain How Jesus Walked on Water, Researchers Say
Combining evidence of a cold snap 2,000 years ago with sophisticated
mapping of the Sea of Galilee, Israeli and U.S. scientists have come up
with a scientific explanation of how Jesus could have walked on water.
Their answer: It was actually floating ice.
The scientists acknowledge that the Sea of Galilee, in what is now
northern Israel, has never frozen in modern times. But they say
geological core samples suggest that average temperatures were lower in
Jesus's day, and that there were at least two protracted cold spells in
the region 1,500 to 2,500 years ago.
In addition to chilly weather, their explanation depends on a rare
physical property of the Sea of Galilee, known to modern-day Israelis as
Lake Kinneret. It is fed by salty springs along its western shore that
produce plumes of dense water, thermally isolating areas that could
freeze even if the entire lake did not, they assert.
Floating Ice May Explain How Jesus Walked on Water, Researchers Say
Combining evidence of a cold snap 2,000 years ago with sophisticated
mapping of the Sea of Galilee, Israeli and U.S. scientists have come up
with a scientific explanation of how Jesus could have walked on water.
Their answer: It was actually floating ice.
The scientists acknowledge that the Sea of Galilee, in what is now
northern Israel, has never frozen in modern times. But they say
geological core samples suggest that average temperatures were lower in
Jesus's day, and that there were at least two protracted cold spells in
the region 1,500 to 2,500 years ago.
In addition to chilly weather, their explanation depends on a rare
physical property of the Sea of Galilee, known to modern-day Israelis as
Lake Kinneret. It is fed by salty springs along its western shore that
produce plumes of dense water, thermally isolating areas that could
freeze even if the entire lake did not, they assert.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
