re: tower of babel
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:30:27 -0800
Till wrote:
>Here are some other things that you may want to explain. This ziggurat,
>which you consider to be such fantastic proof of biblical historicity, was
>only 236 feet high. Now if your Yahweh actually thought that these builders
>would succeed in building the tower up to his abode, all I can say is that
>you worship a very stupid deity. If the building of a tower like this so
>angered your Yahweh, then what explanation do you have for the fact that he
>hasn't come down and put a stop to the various space exploration programs in
>different countries? Now these are projects that would pose a much greater
>threat to Yahweh's privacy than would a 236-foot tower.
>
>Also, why would the confounding of tongues have stopped the project? There
>are construction projects today where some of the crew speak one language,
>others another language, and still others yet another language, etc.. You
>like to talk about "the trick is all in how it's done," so let me tell you
>how that the confounding of languages could have been overcome. The people
>who spoke Chaldean, for example, could have dug the clay to make bricks, and
>carried it to a crew speaking Sumerian where the clay would be molded into
>bricks, which would then be carried by Akkadian speaking crew members to a
>kiln, where Moabite speaking crew members would bake them, and so on. You
>see, it's just all in how it's done.
>
>By the way, Aubrey, why don't you find some professional linguists who think
>that this story is an explanation for why people don't all speak the same
>language?
>
>
>Farrell Till
>Skepticism, Inc.
>jftill@midwest.net
Till,go to Japan and take charge of a construction project using only
English. See how far you would get. Aoso, God knew that the tower wouldn't
reach heaven but the people who built it, didn't. It indicated a dangerous
trend. Did God say he was worried about the tower reaching heaven? Show me
in the Bible where God says that. To answer your other question, the Bible
says that a particular tower was built among the others. After archeologists
decipher the langage, did they understand which tower it was referring to.
To your last question, Wouldnm't it been fantastic if the people who started
building the tower, spoke different langages in the first place?
Aubrey
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