I thank you for this. This is exactly it.
About the Suez Canal, I dont know if that is true (looking for sources), but if God wants to part the Red sea, He can. It shouldn't be a bone of contention. He made the world. How would the other be hard to believe? do we also make excuse for spontaneous creation?
Even Joshua with "Sun Stand still, Moon Stand still". Joshua was not an astronomer, but he knew what to ask for. God set a sundial back 15 degrees. He can do anything. He knew what Joshua wanted.