So StopTheTears you believe that God was worried that people would build a tower that would reach to the heavens and the people would do what? Invade Heaven? So God confused their lanuage so they couldn't come up and get him?
Descended from animal? Explain language.
by StopTheTears 59 Replies latest jw friends
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Simon
The Bible teaches that God created all the different languages at Babel.It is far more reasonable to accept the Biblical claim that God created all of mankind's different languages; than it is to believe that some space-dust somehow became life, and then evolved intelligence, and then ended up with many different languages. That makes no sense at all.
I'm sorry, but where did god come from? Your 'explanation' is far more fanciful and requires a far grander spontaneous being suddenly being on the scene than the scientific one.
You're also (intentionally) misrepresenting the evolutionary theory which doesn't involve space-dust.
Don't feel bad though - I used to believe the same stuff and started questioning things on topics just like this and after spending a bit of time learning and educating myself and looking at all the evidence am now very happy and confident in my beliefs - much more than I was before when I'd be tempted to lash out on internet forums when people challenged them.
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Simon
So you admit that the confusion of language and conflict that results is conceived and caused by god? Doesn't that make him a bit of a malevolant bastard?
Before that people were united and not nationalistic ... but god created that ... so he's responsible for nationalistic conflict such as the Nazis vs Jews?
Wow, you must be so proud and happy with your god ... or maybe you don't have a fully thought-out belief system?
It's OK, most of us have 'been there, done that' - it's nicer once you get to some degree of enlightenment but the journey can be rough.
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Murray Smith
If you doubt the evolution of language . . . compare how english was spoken in your own country 100 years ago to how it is spoken today . . . or do some research and compile a list of newly introduced words over that time . . . a split second in evolutionary time.
Then you can prove the facts for yourself and not have to rely on the honesty of what others are telling/not telling you
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still thinking
Just because language changes this does not prove that it is not God given, this is not proof of anything other than the intelligence of human beings.
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Murray Smith
It's proof that language evolves . . . that's all. Check out the Latin language and it's offshoots if you want a better example. But why am I even having to point this out? . . . research it yourself if you are really that interested. Read the foregoing posts.
I'm not trying to prove or disprove the involvement of God . . . you can do that one
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Highlander
compare how english was spoken in your own country 100 years ago to how it is spoken today
Tangier is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States, on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The population was 604 at the 2000 census. The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration era dialect of American English. Each of the original surnames and several of the present surnames on the island originated in the United Kingdom, predominantly from Scotland and Cornwall.
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Broken Promises
Re evolution of language:
You only have to look at the changes in accent, word, dialect etc in the English language between USA, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to see how language changes over distance and time. With the internet revolution those changes will probably become less obvious over time, but it does show that languages can evolve in a short time.
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Aussie Oz
I think i must be descended from the monkey... i walk like that when i have been sitting too long
and my wife keeps refering to my 'pelt' molting and blocking the shower drain.
The third proof is that my woman constantly calls me 'monkey bum' an expression i have taken as some form of endearment to her.
oo oo oz
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Murray Smith
Hey Oz . . . Us Kiwi's have always known we're further up the evolutionary scale than you guy's . . . that's why so many of us come over there to go on the dole and interbreed with you . . . we're trying to help.