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Talk:Bible
4000 BC
"... the earth was without form, and void;"
"Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear:"
"And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:"
We can assume the water "gathered together unto one place" started spinning
like the earth is still spinning.
We can assume the mud would appear as dry land around the equator,
probably as continuous land.
It would be an ideal growing condition, like a rain forrest, but there was no rain at first.
2344 BC Great Flood 2/17/2344 BC
2343 BC End of Flood 2/27/2343 BC
How much did the flood change the face of the earth.
God probably buried the dead people and animals (fossil fuel)
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
2243 BC Peleg lived 239 years
"the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided;"
c 2124 BC Great Earthquake (mid-point in Peleg's life)
... 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:
... 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.
A great earthquake as never seen before or since, broke the earth into parts
and the pieces moved many miles apart.
Mountains were created. There were only low hills at the time of the flood.
Many people were trapped on these islands of land.
This event to be the division of the North and South American continents
from the European and African continents by the Atlantic ocean.
God confused their language,
so that they would not be able to understand one another.
The dispersion of people across the earth was generally along extended family lines.
This creation of different languages was thus a sudden, miraculous event.
Hungarian is not an Indo-European language.
Basque, the language of a group of people in present-day Spain,
is from another language family altogether.
Each language is totally unrelated to any outside of its group.
Some of the most ‘primitive’ tribes speak languages with extremely complex grammar.
The Sino-Asiatic language family, which includes Chinese, Japanese and Korean,
gives no evidence that it descended from a ‘common ancestor’ language
with any of the Indo-European ones—or any other language from another family.
Estimates of the number of different ‘language families’ vary, and are difficult.
But they are generally in the vicinity of some 8 to 20 (commonly 12 or 13).
A small number of languages,
separately created at Babel, has diversified into the huge variety of languages we have today.
Mountains were formed and as the crushed, thickened, buckled, and sediment-laden continents sank into the mantle
sea level had to rise in compensation.
Sea level is about 1000 meters higher today than it was before the flood.
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