"Many miracles that happened in myth might be called the crystallization of shocking magic power, with a low probability of occurance and astronomical risk! That Moses parted the waters of the sea was not a miracle of God--the risk of that desperate situation, cornered by soldiers on the Red Sea's shores, weighed upon the scales of slaughter and gave birth to that miraculous magic power. If the same thing occurred again on the same scale, the sea would surely fail to part."