The scattering at Babel has been used to validate a lot of nonsense as well, such as the Curse of Ham and the African peoples being marked as the "servants of servants". The Creation Museum has a nice little graphic even showing the decedents of Ham migrating to Africa. Not meant to be a race card, but it is interesting that these notions persist.
Something I never noticed before. The Babel fiasco occurred many generations after the flood. That means that not only was there very little if any interbreeding between the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth (meaning that the post-flood population of humans is even more interbred that I realized), but when God confounded the languages, he more or less grouped similar languages according to descendants.
That's assuming that the Iranians and Indians aren't actually Semites, but good ol' Japhethite aryans who later invaded Asia. If not, then it's interesting that the language given to the Semite Iranians are so close to the language given to the totally unrelated Japhethite Greeks and Celts.
Gah! The mess creationists make of linguistics is even
worse than the one they make of geology!
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