Young Words: The Evidence

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In an effort to undermine the Bible, so called “Linguists” claim they know all about the origins of languages. They have the gall to suggest that over time, languages “evolve” from each other. Here for example, they claim to have traced how modern western languages branched off from other older languages.

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In reality, as seen in the historical telling of the Tower of Babel, everyone in the entire world lived in the exact same place, speaking exactly one language, getting along perfectly. Then God came down, presumably because he didn't like a tower so close to where ever he put Heaven at the time, and knocked it over. Then, to make extra sure everyone didn't get along and work together, he made everyone instantly speak different languages and sent them all around the world at once.

Here is an authentic Babylonian brick.



Does that brick make any sense? Of course not! You know why? God.

Please provide more evidence that languages were all instantly created at the same time by God.

Feel free to debate.

Well, if you are using the Bible as your basis, you fail miserably. See the Bible clearly states that the tower was completely and utterly destroyed. In other words, that brick did not come from the Biblical tower of Babel. Your argument fails utterly.

If you actually want to debate the origin of language,,, fine. But your post is not that.

[AndyDufresne]

If you actually want to debate the origin of language,,, fine. But your post is not that.

--Andy

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Well, if you are using the Bible as your basis, you fail miserably. See the Bible clearly states that the tower was completely and utterly destroyed. In other words, that brick did not come from the Biblical tower of Babel. Your argument fails utterly.

If you actually want to debate the origin of language,,, fine. But your post is not that.

The account in Genesis makes no mention of any destruction of the tower. The people whose languages are confounded simply stop building their city, and are scattered from there over the face of the Earth. However, in other sources, such as the Book of Jubilees (chapter 10 v.18-27), Cornelius Alexander (frag. 10), Abydenus (frags. 5 and 6), Josephus (Antiquities 1.4.3), and the Sibylline Oracles (iii. 117-129), God overturns the tower with a great wind. In the Midrash, it said that the top of the tower was burnt, the bottom was swallowed, and the middle was left standing to erode over time.

Muhuhaha! Your attempts only make me and my (alien?) brick more powerful!

[tzor]

Well, if you are using the Bible as your basis, you fail miserably. See the Bible clearly states that the tower was completely and utterly destroyed. In other words, that brick did not come from the Biblical tower of Babel. Your argument fails utterly.

It does?

No it doesn't say the tower was destroyed.

The whole world had the same language and the same words.

When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar* and settled there.

They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky,* and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Then the LORD said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

That is why it was called Babel,* because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. From there the LORD scattered them over all the earth.

* [11:1–9] This story illustrates increasing human wickedness, shown here in the sinful pride that human beings take in their own achievements apart from God. Secondarily, the story explains the diversity of languages among the peoples of the earth.

* [11:2] Shinar: see note on 10:10.

* [11:4] Tower with its top in the sky: possibly a reference to the chief ziggurat of Babylon, E-sag-ila, lit., “the house that raises high its head.”

* [11:9] Babel: the Hebrew form of the name “Babylon”; the Babylonians interpreted their name for the city, Bab-ili, as “gate of god.” The Hebrew word balal, “he confused,” has a similar sound.