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Ice Capades of the New Testament

Here's a new one to add to your list of laughable explanations to a Biblical event. In an article, Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says an article from the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology concludes that,

Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.
The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in northern Israel.

The authors of this study somehow determined that during the time when Christ lived this type of ice phenomena might form once every 30-60 years or so. However, they concluded that the chances of this type of ice occuring today is effectively "zero," which is about the value of this story and the related study.

Posted by Narnia3 at April 4, 2006 12:25 PM | TrackBack