12.30.06
Tower of Babel
It would be of interest if we could get past the obvious problems in the Darwinian account. a single original language?
A look at the transformation of language in the pattern of the eonic effect should be a warning that current thinking is simply off the wall.
the proliferation of languages is an accident: a single original language morphed into 6,000 when different groups of people emerged. I hope that dying languages can be recorded and described. I hope that many persist as hobbies, taught in schools and given space in the press, as Irish, Welsh, and Hawaiian have.
However, the prospect we are taught to dread — that one day all the world’s people will speak one language — is one I would welcome. Surely easier communication, while no cure-all, would be a good thing worldwide. There’s a reason the Tower of Babel story is one of havoc rather than creation.