God confused peoples language so they couldn't build Babel....a load of crap!
by Witness 007 49 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Narkissos
An interesting overview of the debate (with some helpful links) here: http://www.timothyjpmason.com/WebPages/LangTeach/CounterChomsky.htm
(As some already know, I am quite fond of the Babel story for the legend it is.)
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rebel8
FINALLY FREE: So I wonder what he's going to do about the international space station. It's even higher up. Will he confuse the languages even more?
You always make me laugh!
BOHM: reniaa: seriously, have you even tried a simple google querry to educate yourself on this matter before posting it here as a "problem"?
I believe she is actually the same person as a poster we used to have, called defd. He had a way to get people here to spoon feed facts to him. She/he/they would be better off doing their own research like we all did when we were journeying out. It's more convincing when you find it for yourself. Just give her a few pointers and send her on her way to Google, I say.
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gubberningbody
The problem of course is compounded if (and it appears to be so) Chomsky is correct because now we've stopped discussing language and are now dealing with the issues of the biological structures present in humans which allow for language. Some of these might be deduced from debatable fossil records (debatable for a host of reasons), however since the deep structures are supposed to be neural and are not even now understood, you can see how it is that any dealings with origins of language are necessarily philosophical and not strictly speaking "scientific".
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villabolo
Why didn't God do the babel thing when the Egyptians build their pyramids?
villabolo
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OUTLAW
Why don`t Astronauts come back to earth,speaking different languages??
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JWoods
SO if you don't believe in the bible explanation on how the world got to have such a multiplicity of languages....how did we get so many languages?
Reniaa
Did you ever notice that not all songbirds sing the same song?
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glenster
One somewhat literal interpretation to hazard, not that I'm pressing for a
literal interpretation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis#Abraham
Creation: plants before aquatic life and birds before animals? Is this in
regard to early forms of the Paleozoic Era? However science says it was done,
God did it that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleozoic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_according_to_Genesis
Adam and Eve--first man and woman given God's purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Noah--a regional flood could be the whole world as he knew it and have been a
serious setback to population growth early on in the development of modern
people. (It wouldn't make such and old man build such a big boat, either.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark
Tower of Babel--people spread from there and developed different languages. -
Leolaia
It's derived from Mesopotamian legends like the story of the Flood.
Genesis 11:3-4: "They said to each other, 'Come, let's mold bricks (nlbnh lbnym) and bake them thoroughly'. They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let's build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth' ".
Enuma Elish VI 55-63: "When Marduk heard this, his features glowed brightly like the day, 'Then make Babylon the task that you requested. Let its brickwork be molded (ilbinu libittu), build high the shrine'. The Annunaki busied themselves with their spades, for one full year they molded bricks (libittashu iltabnu). When the second year arrived, they raised high the head of Esagila toward heaven, they built the high ziggurat of heaven".
Building Inscription of Nabopolassar: "As for Etemenanki, the ziggurat of Babylon, which before my time had become weakened and partially collapsed, the lord Marduk commanded me to lay its foundations firm in the breast of the underworld, and make its top equal to heaven. Using baskets, spades, and instruments I made out of ivory and mismakanna wood, I ordered the many workmen assembled in my land to carry them. I set to work and I made bricks, I fabricated burnt bricks, Like the downpour of heaven, which cannot be measured, like the massive Flood, I caused them to carry bitumen and pitch....Like the bricks of Etemenanki, which are to remain fixed forever, may you establish the foundation of my throne for all time" (KIB, iii. 2.5)
Genesis 11:1, 6-8: "Now the whole world had one language and one tongue...Yahweh said, 'If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other'. So Yahweh scattered them from there over all the earth".
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, lines 135-155: "In those days, there being no snakes, there being no scorpions, there being no hyenas, there being no lions, there being no dogs or wolves, there being nothing fearful or frightening, mankind had no opponents ... in the whole compass of heaven and earth the people entrusted to him could address Enlil verily in a single tongue. In those days, having lordly bouts, princely bouts, and royal bouts, did Enki .. lord of abundance, lord of effective comand, did the lord of intelligence, the country's clever one, did the leader of the gods, did the sagacious omen-revealed lord of Eridu estrange the tongues in their mouths as many as were put there, the tongues of men which were one". -
inkling
Did you ever notice that not all songbirds sing the same song?
Well duh, and that's because they all got together and
tried to built a nest in a tree so high it touched heaven!
(it was the tree from Nebuchadnezzar's dream: the one that
could be seen from everywhere in the world because it was
so tall and the earth was so flat.)
God got angry, because all thier little birdy building racket
was ruining his 7th day nap, and so he confoosed thier
songs, and they scattered to teh far corners of teh earf.It's the only explaination that makes sense!
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