Professor Doron Nof of Florida State University, come on down.
Apparently not one to shy away from controversy, Nof says it's possible that our main man Jesus may not have walked on water back in the day. Nope, says Nof, he very well may have been walking on ice.
From LiveScience.com:
Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.
The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in northern Israel.
Uh oh. Somebody's about to have his name mentioned by people who have no chance at all of ever pronouncing it correctly.
Mind you, the Florida State professor isn't trying to deliberately piss off those one-toothed wonders living throughout Freeperville. And heck, it's not like he's trying to say, for instance, that man descended from monkeys. But still:
"We simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years," said Doron Nof, a Florida State University Professor of Oceanography. "We leave to others the question of whether or not our research explains the biblical account."
Oh, Professor, if only you knew exactly how feverishly those "others" are about to explain the motivations behind your research. I truly hope your office number is unlisted, because you'll soon have your name mentioned on the Hannity show.