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depended on surface water not mixing with warmer water below,
AND being confined to near the source (shore).
The biblical accounts all talk of high winds and waves, as well as
the boat being out in the lake (trying to get across). Hardly the
still waters of Prof. Nof's assumptions.
His "back of his mind" notions of Spring Ice explaining the
biblical accounts, is a good example of "science" tunnel vision.
There might have been Spring Ice, but reported conditions were
hardly conducive.
And what of actually walking on this Spring Ice? As a kid from
Minnesota, I can tell you that walking on ice chunks is not easy.
Unless they're many inches thick, and several times longer than
your height, they'll simply tip and dump you in. It's not like in
the movies or cartoons.