Spek: I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is more to the tower story than being a 'just so story'. Just like the grim fairy tales....or maybe I'm just giving the people of back then way too much intellectual credit.
I agree that it's never a good idea to sell our ancestors short. They lacked a lot of information we take for granted, but what they knew they really did know, and they built entire systems of shared knowledge on it. Can
you write in Harrapan or build Stonehenge or precisely navigate a canoe on the open ocean under overcast skies? Neither can I. As
Jar notes, their systems of thought worked fine for explaining the observations they were in a position to make.
It isn't clear to me, though, what you intend to suggest with the idea that there is 'more to the tower story.' What kind of meaning do you have in mind?
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