Evidence for the Biblical Record

No webpage found at provided URL: http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_numbers.htm8 on this list looks pretty much the same as the 8 i posted earlier. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

i have been trying to find more chinese characters but i dont have the right software to download themfrom your link i found another 'mouth' Creation is comprised of the following components
dust + (breath of) life + (from God's) mouth + motion = CreationInterestingly, this is the character for 'creation'. Its a very similar to the genesis account of Adams creation where he was made of dust and God blew into him the breath of lifeEdited by Peg, : No reason given.

what was your point back then? This wasnt about Noahs flood. Let me remind you that it is about the similarities in languages which show a linkage of the chinese to mesopotamia... a linkage that ZenMonkey denies.its got nothing to do with the flood account ok.

you can put it down to evolution if you wantBut you do realise that linguists look for such similarities to determine if a language is related to another?In this case its was said that the chinese were already an established nation far away from the mesopotamians and therefore their language was completely independent and not related....IOW it was established before the 'so called' confusion of languages incident.So this similarity is either just a coincidence, or the chinese were not an established nation at the time and were a part of the people of mesopotamia who were dispersed after the tower of babel incident.

and that wasnt the point of my bringing it upZen Monkey claimed that the chinese had no influence from the mesopotamians because the chinese were far far away and already had an established language of their own around the time of the socalled 'babel' account.So, if you agree that linguists use similarities in words to establish a link, why should the similarity between the chinese words and mesopotamian ideas not prove such a link?Do they only identify and establish links under some circumstances but not others...can they pick and choose which links they accept and which links they reject? And what would they base such rejection or acceptance upon?

it was hebrew and the reasoning behind this is that hebrew was the language of Noah and his 3 sons. Shem and his family did not get involved in the building of the tower, so he was not one of the people to have his language changed and his decendents are the isrealites who continued to speak the original language. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

Perhaps if everyone at the time was involved the rebellion...but not everyone was so why would God need to remove the original language? The genesis account shows that people were writing well before the tower incident...they were writing in their original language, hebrew, so why should this be necessary? Moses got his information from either oral tradition or from existing writings. In genesis the expression this is the book of the generations of is seen, so he likely got the early geneology from existing writings.

"That we know of"....yes, that may be the case, however it could also be circumstantial. If Hebrew really is the oldest, then its possible that the very oldest writings simply are too old to exist...or havent been found yet. Moses got information about Adam from, what he called, 'The book of Adams history' Pheneocian is a subgroup of the canaanite language. Canaan was Noahs grandson from Ham. This makes both pheneocian and canaanite younger then hebrew.I know you dont want biblical evidence, however Moses was able to get the names of the generations of mankind after Adam from somewhere. He called his reference 'the book of Adams history' This is not available anymore but it was obviously still around 4,000 years ago. dating methods can be flawed and not give accurate dates. Who's to say their dating of these languages is accurate? Can they prove accuracy? I dont think so. That is not my opinion. The bible is a record of human history not found anywhere else, it provides answers to questions not found anywhere else. It is in harmony with historical facts and time and again archeology digs up places and people whom critics have denied existed. This is why many people do accept the bibles history as fact.