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When was the Tower of Babel Made?

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09-04-2003 9:23 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by a visitor
09-01-2003 11:33 AM

Ive been searching through sites and was wondering when exactly was the tower of babel made, i have my own thoughts on it but i was wondering what you guys think and why you gave the date you did, thx.
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Well this is an easy question to answer! The tower of Babel never existed. A story about said tower is in the book of christian mythology called the bible, but it is more of a just-so tale about how the different languages come about and is not to be taken seriously or literally.
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09-04-2003 9:39 AM 		Reply to: Message 12 by crashfrog
09-04-2003 9:29 AM

Very interesting parallel. Perhaps a new anti-creationist tack? "Linguistics falsifies the Tower of Babel account." Honestly I have yet to hear this issue debated by creationists. Maybe we can break new ground on this?
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There is an excellent book called "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond which has a chapter about the migration of certain languages. The whole book is pretty interesting. I haven't read up much on language development and dispersement, but I've read enough to glean that most languages can be traced back to non-biblical origins.
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