Johnny Skeptic

If Noah's group repopulated the earth, what language did they speak?

When did the repopulation begin?

Assuming that the supposed global flood occured after 2500 B.C., how do fundamentalist Christians account for the wide varieties of very different languages in so short a time all coming from one prior language? English of 1,000 years ago is still understandable today.

I am certainly not an expert on languages. I just wanted to get some discussions going.

Toto

There is no way that the development of languages can be reconciled with the story of Noah. Just no way.

mung bean

Ok JS, the YEC version is that Yahweh confused everyone's tongues at Babel. This, according to YEC's, accounts for the diversity of language today. Yes it's as nutty as anything else they propose.

LoneWolf

I think the many of the fundies will say it is addressed by the story of the Tower of Babel.

Gen 11:5-9 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Pappy Jack

JS, Mung started this thread (YEC population projections and the tower of Babel - it's been a long time since our favourite creo posted there, MB!) wherein you can find some YEC 'ideas' about this. Whether you'll attract any creos to this thread or not to defend or argue their position, well I hae ma doots..... :devil3:

mung bean

Oh, that thread. :rolling: