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- Scientists Confirm Bible--again
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- From Hal Lindsey's "Countdown"
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- Though many secularists in our society prefer to focus on the
- few areas of conflict between modern science and biblical history,
- archologists and other scientists continue to confirm the
- overwhelming amount of information that the Bible tells us about how
- our world developed.
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- The latest area of agreement is in the theory of how languages
- developed. Twenty years ago, the biblical story of Babel and how God
- confounded man by creating many languages from one would have seemed
- like pure myth to most linguistic researchers. Now, a growing number
- of them believe that all of today's modern languages began with one
- original--in the Middle East.
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- "A few linguistic experts now firmly believe that, by analyzing
- the evolution and approximate sound and meaning of certain words,
- they have reconstructed the basic vocabulary of a remote ancestral
- language that modern man has never heard or seen," the New York Times
- reported Nov.24,1987. "They call it Nostratic, for the Latin
- 'noster', for 'our'. Nostratic was spoken in the Middle East
- sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago, the researchers say,
- and from it evolved all the European languages as well as many
- African and Asian ones."
-
- Isn't this precisely what is described in Genesis, Chapter
- 11:19?
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- "Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
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- "And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a
- plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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- "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and
- burn them thoroughly.' And they used brick for stone and they used
- tar for mortar.
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- "And they said, 'Come,let us build for ourselves a city and a
- tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for
- ourselves a name;lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the
- whole earth.'
-
- "And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the
- sons of men had built.
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- "And the Lord said,'Behold, they are one people, and they all
- have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now
- nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.'
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- "Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that
- they may not understand one another's speech.
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- "So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of
- the whold earth;and they stopped building the city.
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- "Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord
- confused the language of the whole earth;and from there the Lord
- scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth."
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