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Author Topic:   Languages and the Creationist account.
Chiroptera
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Message 5 of 32 (633102)
09-12-2011 1:24 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Son Goku
09-12-2011 7:07 AM


Good heavens, Son Goku!
I propose that the literal Biblical account cannot be reconciled with the historical picture uncovered by linguists.
Well, creationists have rejected the findings of biologists and geneticists and geologists and astrophysicists and cosmologists. Does anyone really think that linguistics are going to fare any better in their gentle hands?

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. -- Abbie Hoffman

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Chiroptera
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Message 6 of 32 (633107)
09-12-2011 1:32 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Wollysaurus
09-12-2011 11:21 AM


Re: where's the beef?
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!

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. -- Abbie Hoffman

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