Re: Question for Dick (or anyone else)

Yes that is what I was thinking of. And my point wasnt to
prove the Genesis account, I was actually looking for a
much earlier deluge. But from what I understand of Dick's
post, it is more likely that a lot of the flood accounts
are not related.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:56:09 -0800 (PST)
  Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- 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
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Received on Fri Mar 17 12:23:20 2006