A multi-institutional team of environmental scientists and limnologists has discovered a possible scientific explanation for one of Jesus’ miracles: the “Wonderful Fishing”.
In a study published in Water Resources Researchthe team describes the study of natural fish deaths in Lake Kinneret, known as the Biblical Sea of Galilee.
In the New Testament there are two accounts that describe one of Jesus’ miracles in which he transformed a few fish into many: one in the book of Luke and the other in that of John. For nearly 2,000 years, these events have been considered miracles by Christians. In this new study, the researchers wanted to find out if there might be another explanation for the sudden increase in fish numbers described in these accounts.
Their work included placing temperature sensors and devices to measure oxygen levels in the lake, as well as recording wind speed and direction and analyzing modern historical accounts of fish kills. Scientists found brief periods when winds at the lake’s surface were strong enough to draw oxygen from the depths, leaving very little for aquatic life.
One of Jesus’ miracles now has a scientific explanation
The result was a sudden fish kill which, to people on shore or in a boat, looked like large numbers of fish slowly rising to the surface, allowing them to be easily caught, just as described in the accounts biblical, notes Phys.org.
The researchers point out that Lake Kinneret is naturally layered: it has a cold lower layer with low oxygen levels and a warmer, oxygen-rich upper layer where fish live. From time to time, thermal stratification occurs and the waters of the two layers mix, resulting in too little oxygen for fish to survive at any level of the lake. The fish die and float to the surface.
The team also found that the most abundant fish species in the lake during these mass die-offs usually end up on the shore, where they could be easily harvested by the hungry population. The researchers also found that conditions in the lake at the time of Jesus were similar to those that lead to massive fish kills today, suggesting that the “miracles” were, in fact, mere natural coincidences.
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Source: www.descopera.ro
