| The topography at the Gulf of Aqaba, the eastern | | | | at both the Sinai and Saudi Arabia sides. |
| appendage of the Red Sea in the Mid-East, is so | | | | - During 3500 years, undoubtedly turbulent storms |
| unusual that it really begs a question: if there was and | | | | have swept much debris over the sides of the ridge |
| is a God, one who wanted to show humankind | | | | to the sea floor, thousands of feet below, yet |
| "miracles": 1) the splitting of a long, deep sea and | | | | enough chariot wheel artifacts remain to prove |
| walls of water being held back by an East wind; 2) to | | | | happenings of millennia ago. |
| reveal an undersea pathway leading to safety in | | | | - To a realist - large volumes of sand are not unusual |
| another land (seven miles across); 3) which can be | | | | - on ocean coastline beaches. However, such an |
| used for the escape of a slave-people; 4) and then | | | | immense volume of sand, to create a mile-size beach |
| engulf and drown the pursuing chariot army - doesn't | | | | and to nearly fill the almost mile-deep Gulf across |
| that require the precise, amazing and improbable | | | | seven miles - from a river wadi runoff - has to be so |
| set-up that 21st century realists can easily see today | | | | unusual that it beggars the mind. Yet there it is - |
| in the Mid-East and on the Internet? | | | | enabling the play-out of the Biblical scene: Hebrews |
| What are the solid, scientific facts: | | | | somehow escaping on foot across a wide sea, and |
| - During the past decade, photos in a dozen books | | | | later, a chariot army being drowned. That's what the |
| plus underwater films (all readily available), show | | | | topography and artifacts show. |
| coral-covered wreckage of 18th Dynasty Egyptian | | | | - There is, of course, solid extra-biblical verification of |
| Chariot wheels (of 3500 years ago) strewn along an | | | | an Hebraic-Semitic peoples having once been slaves in |
| undersea ridge which bridges the Gulf of Aqaba - | | | | Egypt; of a Joseph-Imhotep in Egypt; of a Moses; |
| from Nuweibo Beach on the Sinai Peninsula to Saudi | | | | and centuries later, of the Hebrews conquering |
| Arabia. | | | | Canaan, and Kings Saul, David and Solomon. Thus, |
| - The Gulf of Aqaba, about 100 miles long and seven | | | | there is factual extra-biblical before-and-after |
| or eight miles wide, is attached to the Red Sea at | | | | evidence - that slave people Israelites managed, |
| the Straits of Teran, is extremely deep, 5000 feet | | | | somehow, to really leave Egypt and reach |
| (Argonese Deep) on one side of the undersea ridge | | | | Canaan-Palestine. The Bible's Exodus story tells how. |
| and 3000 feet (Eilat Deep) on the other. The depth | | | | Can it be believed? |
| of the sea has been well probed and verified. | | | | - Logic says: the wreckage strewn along the ridge |
| - Satellite photos show Nuweibo Beach as extremely | | | | pathway to the shore of Saudi Arabia, seven miles |
| large, about a mile on a side, extending into the Gulf - | | | | away, argues that the chariots, horses and men got |
| the start of the undersea ridge pathway. | | | | there by their own volition - boats or currents didn't |
| - The undersea pathway is described by Dr. Lennart | | | | carry them to where they are today. Why and how |
| Moeller, medical research scientist, marine biologist and | | | | did they get there? The Bible says the charioteers |
| archaeologist, who led a diving expedition there a | | | | traveled there voluntarily - chasing the Israelites - |
| decade ago, as being strewn with coral-covered | | | | who seemed to be safely effecting their escape. Is |
| chariot wheels, axles and shafts, even some skeletal | | | | there another explanation? |
| bones of horses and men. Dr. Viveka Ponten, | | | | - Even though the ridge is thousands of feet above |
| archaeologist and deep-sea diver, had been doing | | | | the bottom of the Gulf, it is still hundreds of feet |
| similar diving-research off the shore of Saudi Arabia. | | | | below sea level, so how could anyone traveling on |
| On the expedition were a half-dozen international | | | | the ridge survive - if the Egyptians did not? Maybe |
| world-class scientists from three continents, providing | | | | the Israelites (or whoever) were never there - then |
| scholarly oversight: Dr. Frank Moore Cross, | | | | why and how did the charioteers go so many miles |
| world-renowned Archaeologist and Professor | | | | onto the ridge? If 3500 years ago, the water level of |
| Emeritus of Harvard University; Dr. John A. Bloom, | | | | the Gulf was much lower and the ridge was above |
| Director of the Interdisciplinary Biblical Research | | | | the sea, then why the chariot wreckage? The bible |
| Institute; Dr. Bryant C. Wood, Director of Association | | | | says "walls of water were held back by an East wind |
| for Biblical Research; Dr. C. S. Lewis; et al. | | | | - which then collapsed, drowning the charioteers" - |
| - Per marine biologists, coral does not grow on rocks | | | | but that requires belief in a "somewhat-miracle". Is |
| and sand, only on man-made objects. There is no | | | | there a rational explanation? |
| other spot on earth, even in the same Gulf of | | | | A religious believer could argue that the ridge |
| Aqaba, which contains such coral-covered chariot | | | | pathway was a topographical "prop" - set up at the |
| wreckage. The wheel diameters and number of | | | | beginning of time - precisely for this event to show |
| spokes match the chariots found in King Tut's tomb | | | | the power of the Creator. The counter-argument |
| and as shown on Egyptian wall murals of that | | | | would be that, while improbable, it was just fortuitous |
| dynastic period. | | | | happenstance - that the quarry fleeing from the |
| - The entry area to the beach is a dry river bed - | | | | Egyptian chariot army, was just lucky or |
| Wadi Watir, shown on satellite photography as | | | | knowledgeable so as to come upon this ridge - and |
| twisting and turning between rugged hills and leading | | | | somehow the sea level was lower then, or the East |
| to Nuweibo beach. The undersea ridge begins at the | | | | wind was very, very focused, concentrating only on |
| beach's projection into the Gulf, the sand-silt deposits | | | | the strip of water above the ridge, or ???. |
| over millennia having - created the mile-size beach, | | | | So those are the facts. Is there any other spot on |
| then continuing to deposit such a volume of sand as | | | | Earth that is even close to matching such a |
| to almost completely fill the near-mile deep and | | | | topological-prop set-up - completely improbable, but |
| seven-mile-wide Gulf. | | | | completely essential for the biblical scenario to play |
| - At the half-way point, the undersea ridge is a few | | | | out? |
| hundred feet below sea level. The slopes of the ridge | | | | Something for 21st century realists to scratch their |
| are approximately a traversable 12 degree inclination | | | | heads over. |