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Wednesday, January 21, 2004

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/WheelHub2.jpg
Is this a chariot wheel that chased Moses?

"I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter Elmer tells
WorldNetDaily after two diving trips to the Gulf of Aqaba branch of the
sea. "It was covered in coral."

The 38-year-old forklift mechanic from Keynsham, England, traveled to the
region with his brother, Mark, after being inspired by videos of explorers
Ron Wyatt and Jonathan Gray, who have documented artifacts that in at least
one case authorities have confirmed to be a chariot wheel dating to the
time of the Exodus.

"I believe I actually sat in an ancient chariot cab," Elmer said, referring
to his time exploring a submerged item in what he describes as an
underwater scrapyard. "Without question, it is most definitely the remains
of the Egyptian army."

But despite all of Elmer's excitement, others who have been to the same
location are not so sure what is being viewed underwater are the remnants
of the great chase and urge extreme caution regarding the unsubstantiated
claims.

"All kinds of people are finding coral and calling it chariot parts," says
Richard Rives, president of Wyatt Archaeological Research
http://www.wyattmuseum.com in Tennessee. "It's most likely coral covered
with coral. ... Opportunists are combining false things with the true
things that are found. These people are making it up as they go to be TV
stars."

Rives was a longtime partner of Ron Wyatt, an anesthetist and amateur
archaeologist who died of cancer in 1999. Before passing away, Wyatt
devoted years searching for and documenting physical evidence for events
mentioned in the Bible. In addition to chariot wheels, Wyatt claimed to
have found Noah's Ark on the mountain next to Ararat in Turkey, the "true"
Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia and the Ark of the Covenant with the Ten
Commandments near the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/LandBridge2.jpg
Submerged 'land bridge' (wyattmuseum.com)

Among those who accompanied Wyatt on many of his excursions is his wife,
Mary Nell. She's concerned about over-exuberance regarding new claims, but
the Spring Hill, Tenn., woman tells WorldNetDaily she's "convinced" there
are chariot parts located on a subsurface "land bridge"
http://www.wyattmuseum.com/images/wpe4A.jpg connecting Egypt to Saudi
Arabia through the Gulf of Aqaba.

She cites Ron's discovery of a wheel hub that he brought to the surface in
the late 1970s as proof.

The hub had the remains of eight spokes radiating outward and was examined
by Nassif Mohammed Hassan, director of Antiquities in Cairo. Hassan
declared it to be from the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, explaining the
eight-spoked wheel was used only during that dynasty around 1400 B.C.

Curiously, no one can account for the precise whereabouts of that
eight-spoked wheel today, though Hassan is on videotape stating his
conclusion regarding authenticity.

When Mary Nell went diving with Ron, she says it was very easy to assume
(wrongly) that every item on the flat bottom had historical significance.

"[At first] I thought everything was a chariot wheel!" Mrs. Wyatt
exclaimed, noting how difficult it is for the untrained eye to distinguish
an artifact from a piece of coral. "I'm just trying to be cautious about
over-identifying too much. ... It is God's truth, and we can't hype it up.
We can't add to it."

However, she notes a big problem for explorers and scientists is that the
Egyptian government no longer allows items to be removed from the protected
region. Thus, someone claiming to find an artifact will have a hard if
not impossible time verifying its authenticity, a classic catch-22.

The watery grave

"And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and
all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained
not so much as one of them." (Exodus 14:28)

The Bible account makes it clear that once the Israelites had marched
through the parted sea on dry ground, that the waters rushed back to
completely engulf the doomed army of ancient Egypt.

With that in mind, many of the items being seen in the Gulf of Aqaba have
been photographed by divers
https://safeco3.net/wyattmuseum/images/wpe78.jpg for comparison to the
Exodus story.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/GoldWheel2.jpg
(wyattmuseum.com)

One of the most spectacular items is what appears to be a wheel with metal
exposed https://safeco3.net/wyattmuseum/images/wpe2E1.jpg . Mary Nell says
the wheel is covered with a gold veneer, to which coral has difficulty
attaching. She says the gold wheel is still there, wedged so tightly in the
bottom that it feels like it's been cemented in.

Many other photographs show formations in a circular pattern with
projections that could be spokes
https://safeco3.net/wyattmuseum/images/wpe86.jpg , but those items remain
at the bottom and have not been authenticated.

Another issue is the route of the Exodus, and which body of water the
Israelites crossed. Many travel maps and Bibles indicate a crossing point
in the Gulf of Suez, the western branch of the Red Sea. But those may have
to be updated if the Aqaba location is confirmed as the true location for
the miraculous event.

"The truth is, no one really knows where the crossing of the Red Sea took
place," says Carl Rasmussen, a biblical geographer and professor of Old
Testament at Bethel College http://www.bethel.edu/ in St. Paul, Minn.

Rasmussen compiled the "Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible" and personally
thinks the crossing took place somewhere along what is now the Suez Canal.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/AqabaSinai.jpg
Yellow highlights possible spot of Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia. Gulf of
Aqaba branch of Red Sea is at center, with main Red Sea at bottom-right of
photo (wyattmuseum.com)

Some scientists from Europe say the current maps are wrong, and the Wyatts
are right that the crossing began at the Nuweiba
https://safeco3.net/wyattmuseum/images/wpeB6.jpg beachhead, went through
the Gulf of Aqaba http://www.covenantkeepers.co.uk/redsea/redsea1.htm , and
then into what is now Saudi Arabia where they claim the "true" Mount Sinai
is located.

For years, scholars have speculated as to the location of the actual Mount
Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. At least 13 sites
have actually been claimed on the Sinai peninsula as being the correct spot.

But Ron Wyatt believed it was in Arabia, even referenced as "mount Sinai in
Arabia" by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:25.

So he and his sons made their way to "Jebel el Lawz," the mountain of the
Law, which is known by the locals as "Jebel Musa" Moses' mountain.

Unfortunately for the Wyatts, they were arrested and held in prison. His
wife says someone had phoned embassy authorities for the Muslim country,
claiming that Ron was spying for Israel. They were released after spending
78 days behind bars.

Rasmussen doesn't agree with the Arabian Mount Sinai theory.

"I believe the strongest candidate is Jebel Sin Bisher," he told
WorldNetDaily. "The sites in Saudi Arabia have very, very weak scriptural
backing, in spite of the hype."

Now, a new book by Cambridge University physicist Colin Humphreys titled
"The Miracles of Exodus" http://www.miraclesofexodus.com/ supports not only
the claim for an Aqaba crossing, but also the location of Mount Sinai in
Arabia.

"If my book is correct, and I believe the evidence is very strong," says
Humphreys, "then world maps will need to be redrawn to relocate Mount
Sinai. History books, travel guides and biblical commentaries will need to
be rewritten."

Throughout his work, Humphreys provides scientific explanations to
corroborate the accounts of the Old Testament.

"'The waters piled up, the surging waters stood firm like a wall,' is a
remarkable description of what the mathematics reveals to be the case for
water pushed back by a very strong wind," he writes.

"What I have found is that the events of the Exodus are even more dramatic
than is generally believed," Humphreys said. "The Exodus of the ancient
Israelites from Egypt really is one of the greatest true stories ever told."

A Swedish scientist who believes the Red Sea was split says while Humphreys
is correct about the Aqaba crossing, there are no natural, scientific
explanations for the parting miracle described in Scripture.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/10Commandments2.jpg
Walls of water as depicted in 'The Ten Commandments' (Paramount Pictures)

"The wind did not separate the water," says Lennart Moller of the
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. "No person could be in that wind and
survive. ... If God has created all the Earth, it's no problem for Him to
separate the water for a while."

Speaking to WorldNetDaily from the isle of Gotland in the Baltic Sea,
Moller, the author of "The Exodus Case," http://www.exoduscase.com/ says
the key in finding the correct route of the Israelites is to understand
that the Hebrew reference to "yum suph" does not mean "sea of reeds" as
many scholars have claimed.

Moller says it refers specifically to the Gulf of Aqaba, and while he's not
formally affiliated with the Wyatts, he agrees with them that a host of
other evidence can be found on the Arabian side of the water, including
remains of the golden calf, pillars, altars and the even the rock the Bible
says Moses split to bring forth water for the Israelites.

Regarding the items found beneath the waters, Moller believes there are
remnants not only of chariots and wheels, but also human and animal skeletons.

"There was a disaster [there] a long time ago," he said. "Whatever that is,
it's open to interpretation."

He also notes that the downward and upward slope of the Aqaba crossing path
actually falls within current U.S. standards for handicapped ramps.

And while Mary Nell Wyatt warns overstating the claims by divers and
authors could do more harm than good, she does believe there's a reason why
her husband was led to discover what Ron called "God's attention-getters."

"God preserved all these evidences," she said, "[otherwise] there would
have been nothing left. ... God has been lost today. Even Christians still
can't believe this all happened. ... We need to pray for the Lord to help
us get people to see it."

Back in England, Peter Elmer says people have mockingly asked "Why should a
forklift mechanic from Keynsham be able to go to the same place Moses was?"

He takes the criticism in stride, pointing out "Jesus used fishermen, tax
collectors and publicans. Why not a forklift mechanic?"

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2]
'I am convinced that God rules the Earth through the laws of physics'
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/21/003.html

ST. PETERSBURG -- It took a stormy night and a strategically placed reef to
pull off the biblical miracle of the parting of the waters of the Red Sea
when the Jews fled slavery in Egypt, according to a new study by two
Russian mathematicians.

A number of researchers around the world have tried to determine the
probability of such an event taking place and to calculate the odds, but
Naum Volzinger, a senior researcher at St. Petersburg's Institute of
Oceanology, and a colleague based in Hamburg, Alexei Androsov, decided
instead to study the conditions needed for the miracle to happen.

"I am convinced that God rules the Earth through the laws of physics,"
Volzinger said in a telephone interview.

"In purely professional terms, I can say that it [the study] was done
through a system of differential equations."

The six-month study, published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, focuses on a reef that runs from the well-documented starting
point of the Jews' escape to the north side of the sea. In biblical times,
the reef was much closer to the surface, Volzinger said.

The questions the researchers were interested in answering included what
wind speed was needed to leave the reef high and dry at low tide, how long
the reef could stay dry, and how quickly the waters would return.

"If the wind blew all night at a speed of 30 meters per second, then the
reef would be dry," said Volzinger, who specializes in various ocean
phenomena, including flooding and tidal waves.

"It would take the Jews -- there were 600,000 of them -- four hours to
cross the seven-kilometer reef that runs from one coast to another. Then,
in half an hour, the waters would come back," he said.

To Jews and Christians alike, the parting of the Red Sea was nothing short
of a miracle. "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord
caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made
the sea dry land, and the waters were divided," reads the biblical book of
Exodus. "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon dry
ground: The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their
left."

The pursuing Egyptian army tried to follow but drowned in the sea.

Mark Grubarg, the head of the Jewish community in St. Petersburg, said the
spiritual value of this miracle is immense for Jews. It is mentioned in the
Shema, a prayer said by religious Jews three times a day. "Jews were the
first nation in history to accept monotheism, but they could hardly assert
it while in slavery in Egypt," Grubarg said. "God told them to return to
the Promised Land, and this is why it was so important. When the Jews
reached the sea, they needed a miracle to complete their journey, and they
were granted that miracle as a reward for their strong faith. The idea of
monotheism is reflected in the Shema prayer."

The event has long preoccupied people's minds. Medieval philosopher Thomas
Aquinas, among others, argued that the parting of the Red Sea was possible.

Volzinger said he and Androsov studied the issue "strictly from Isaac
Newton's point of view."

Yet he acknowledged the religious importance of the miracle. "To fulfill
their historical mission, the Jews needed to return to a free land," he said.

Volzinger said he and Androsov have not informed any religious
organizations about their findings and have not received any reaction yet.

But the parting of the Red Sea, he said, is not likely to happen again --
the reef has been severed to create a passage for ships and the water is
now much deeper. Unless, that is, another miracle occurs.

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