Free Indeed

That's true and the OP validates that when it says "Egypt wasn’t inhabited until after the flood and tower of Babel."

Free Indeed

I'm not sure but it does seem more logical.

TheRealityOfMan

Yea. You would have thought that the Incas for instance would have done something completely different like design their pyramids with the point touching the ground and the large flat part at the top. As you suggest they 'coincidently' used the same kind of approach the ancient Egyptians used. Your explanation explains this strange phenomenom.

Tom Sawyer

Seriously? You find it difficult to imagine that two different groups would come to the realization that if you want to build large structures, making a wide base that gets thinner as it goes up is a stable way to construct them?

This is some sort of great logical leap that couldn't be done more than once?

Free Indeed

No, not a coincidence, the point of the OP is all mankind migrated from Babel and brought their zaggurat knowledge with them.

Demigawd

So, you don't even know who holds an apparent strawman view of civilization development, yet you consider your myth more logical? Ok...:constern02:

Free Indeed

How many people invented the wheel? It would "seem" logical that everyone would have invented it simultaneously, but it didn't happen that way.

"it’s easy to assume that the wheel would have simply "happened" in every culture when it reached a particular level of sophistication. However, this is not the case. The great Inca, Aztec and Maya civilizations reached an extremely high level of development, yet they never used the wheel. In fact, there is no evidence that the use of the wheel existed among native people anywhere in the Western Hemisphere until well after contact with Europeans.

Even in Europe, the wheel evolved little until the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution the wheel became the central component of technology, and came to be used in thousands of ways in countless..."

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/wheel.htm

funinspace

It could explain it if you lived in the land of Oz. Otherwise its BS. Your YEC fantasy simply breaks down because there is not enough time for all the history we know, after your 2100-2400BCE flood (the date depends on when one dates the Exodus). Now in Ge 11, it doesn't really tell us when this "confusion of languages" purportedly happened. However, I think it would be safe to say that since only the Cush's (1 of Noah's grandsons) descendents went to the land of Shinar, that it would be at least 200 years after the Deluge. And I think that is really still being too generous. So this would put it between 1900-2200BCE. Now you have to build up 2 civilizations that have eons of history, and somehow squeeze 1,000 years of written history into time where there are already a dozen other kingdoms with their own written history that is now cross referenced against other empires. Now that would take a real miracle to make history LIE.

You see, by the time of you Babel event, the Akkadians were over running the Sumerian civilization, and putting it under their heal. Ironically, Babel actually means "Gate of the gods" in the native language of the place. These ziggurats were part of the temple (religious center) of every major town. There were a quite a few of them, not one. We have many records from them, and know some of the religious functions. And within 200 more years of history Babylonia was emerging. This time period is not in some sort of vacuum, written in a single set of holy writings with no physical evidence, or external written information to support them (you know kind of like the opposite of your fantasy Deluge, Joshua's solar object demands, or Tower of Babel). You again demonstrate your complete lack of knowledge on ancient history and archeology.

Imnotspecial

The story of the tower of babel is even more nonsensical than the flood story. So why are we even talking about it?

Imnotspecial

After the flood was only Noah and his family. Of course they would speak the same language.:banghead: