It's Still a Miracle

"You saw the suffering of our forefathers in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.  You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters."   (Nehemiah 9:  9, 11, NIV)

Prior to reading the assigned scripture for today, I went online and my homepage is set to CNN.com.  There I saw a news line with the subject matter of Moses, the Red Sea and the Nile River.  That peaked my curiosity, so I went to this link:    http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/21/where-did-waters-part-for-moses-not-where-you-think/?hpt=Mid

"The parting of the waters described in the book of Exodus that enabled Moses and the Israelites to escape the Pharaoh's army is possible, computer simulations run by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder show."  Wow---people have been paid to find out things that we Christians already know.  The parting of waters is possible! 

Their research went on show how wind could have caused this phenomenon. However, they believed it occurred in the Nile River instead of the Red Sea.  OK, let's give them the benefit of the doubt in this argument.  What if wind actually caused it?  What if it actually happened in the Nile River?  (Please understand, I believe what the Bible says.)  But, it still leaves room for a miracle.  What are the odds that a wind "just happened" to have come through, exactly at the right time the Israelites needed to cross over, and at exactly the right speed that it would have taken for those waters to part?  Isn't that a miracle, too?  But, also, the Nile River is located in Egypt.  It's not like researchers found a river thousands of miles away from the Egyptian people who were "barreling down on the Israelites".  It's close to the Red Sea! 

“People have always been fascinated by this Exodus story, wondering if it comes from historical facts,” Drews says. “What this study shows is that the description of the waters parting indeed has a basis in physical laws."  So, let scientists do what they do best---study science.  I, instead, choose to study God and His word.  And, if their findings prove that the Bible is true and has validity, even if the miracle occurred differently, then let them go ahead.  A miracle is still a miracle, regardless of how you choose to part it!~