--- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't *have* to be the AIG model. A local flood's fame perhaps could
> have spread to other cultures. And the tower of Babel story is in our
> Bibles too. If that story isn't merely allegorical, God dipersed some
> people from somewhere local to the flood, and they might have carried the
> flood story to other cultures. What do folks here make of the Babel story?
>
I believe linguists can study the history of languages and make family trees
showing the development and interrelationships. I suspect a linguist would say
that there could be no language bottleneck as recently as Babel is
conventionally dated (i.e. by the genealogies) Is there a linguist on the list
to either confirm or shame my nonexpert babbling?
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
586.986.1474 (work) 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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