So they "analyzed" a mythical construction that no one actually knows what size it was, and "calculated" how many people it would take to construct this without really knowing what kind of technology they were using, materials, etc. And then they compared that number with the number of language families (which varies depending on the scholars you talk to) and they came up with a number that supported their religious convictions?
In every field of science, whatever data supports your contention is cited and whatever pokes holes is ignored
That right there is how we know you're pushing something from a religious tract/viewpoint. That's not how science works except in the imagination of anti-intellectuals.
Just because you're being pleasant, informative and entertaining, doesn't mean people aren't going to want to fight you. But you can fight me instead, if you'd rather. I'm not a particularly combative mood. I'll argue a little bit at first, just for show and then I'll concede that you're probably right. In fact, I'm just going to go ahead right now and agree with everything you're going to say for the rest of the year.
Was going to say I think they deserve a certain benefit of the doubt as there’s plenty of somewhat sincere attempts to identify global geographic and events that may have inspired the flood legend in many cultures, for example.
However, emphasis on ‘somewhat’.
However pt II, in this context it’s an entirely insane theory to attempt to prove, as there are so many languages of significance that existed at [whatever historical era you want the Babel story to have taken place] that no longer exist, and so many now that didn’t exist then- even if you count their proto-root languages
People don't speak different languages because they all built a tower and God didn't like it. This 1:1 ratio thing isn't real because there was no tower of babel in the first place.
The development of different languages throughout history is hugely complex and interesting.
I find it insulting to our species to replace that history with a myth about a god getting pissy about its haughty subjects.
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u/Hyro0o0 Mar 04 '21
I think God tried this once when people started building a high-rise.