Doron Nof
Doron Nof
Doron Nof is an American academic scientist who has published on various aspects of physical oceanography, including flows through straits and passages, boundary current dynamics, upwelling in coastal regions, the dynamics of eddies in the upper and deep ocean, equatorial dynamics, general circulation problems, and cross-equatorial flows. He is the Distinguished Nansen Professor of Physical Oceanography at Florida State University. He is a recipient of the Fridtjof Nansen Medal awarded by the European Geosciences Union. In addition to his scientific...
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Since the springs ice is relatively small, a person standing or walking on it may appear to an observer situated some distance away to be walking on water.
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I don't know whether the story is based on someone seeing Jesus walk on ice. All I know is that during that time, a freeze could have happened and it could have looked like someone was walking on water, particularly if it rained after the ice formed.
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We simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years. We leave to others the question of whether or not our research explains the biblical account.
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This isn't going to convince a believer not to believe, and nobody's trying to do that. At least, I'm not trying to do that. I personally believe that all these biblical stories are based on some truth.
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In today's climate, the chance of springs ice forming in northern Israel is effectively zero, or about once in more than 10,000 years.
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I'm not trying to provide any information that has to do with theology here. All we've thought is about the natural process. What theologians or anybody else does with that it's their business so to speak.
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This is just what we say could have happened. How that fits into an individual's system of beliefs, I don't know.
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The chance that there was ice on the lake is very, very high. It's almost guaranteed during those cold periods, 100 or 200 years long, that there was one such event at least, maybe four.