One Rock At A Time By Dan Erdman Moses was a scientistnot the bespectacled, white lab coat and test tube type, but the scraggly-haired, sandaled, field geologist kind who enjoyed traversing sand dunes with large slabs of slate in his arms and hauling them up a granitic mountain. And I get it. But that thing about the Red Sea, which really made him famous, well, I just don’t know... I made a career understanding how water can, essentially, flow uphillconfined bedrock aquifers, differential head pressure, fracture flow, artesian conditions, and the like; but the parting of a surface water body under atmospheric pressure… well, it just isn’t natural. So, before I retire, I think I may take my collection of Neanderthal bones and carefully cement them into some pre-Cambrian rocks, and scatter my collection of Paleozoic trilobite fossils among the sea shells on the Jersey shore, just to test the younger scientists, and see if they attempt to rewrite the stories of evolution and the geologic time table. Then, I will visit with Moses at whatever retirement community he has moved into, and I will bring along a jug of wine, and we will drink and talk about all the fun we had re-arranging the earth one rock at a time. And, if he wants me to tell him how to make fresh water flow freely from a hole in the ground, I will, if he shares with me the secrets of the Red Sea.
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