Yeah, I never bought that whole, "God confused their languages" bit of this story. I think Nimrod was real, and even the tower. Babylon became a great city, etc. But if God really confused their languages, shame on him. It's kind of like that whole story with the Ark of the Covenant. It started to fall, and one of the men carrying it by the poles reached out to steady it and God's active force (inside the Ark) discharged and killed the guy. Well gee, the guy was just trying to do his job, and you struck him dead for it? God sounds like a real sport. I think it much more likely that due to the Ark's construction (a giant electrical capacitor) that when the man reached out to steady the Ark, he connected with ground and the Ark (capacitor) discharged right thru him to the ground. Boom. End of story.
Many stories in the Bible are just that - STORIES. Many are influenced by true events, people, places, and even natural disasters. There is some truth that had been distorted and added on to as the story was told and written from one generation to the next. One has to be able to use DISCERSION when reading thru it all. You know, common sense. So many people lack this.
It's like the end of the last Mad Max movie.....the girl sitting around telling the tale of Mad Max, and asking them to r'members dis story, an dont furgets, cus we needs to pass dis on an members.
- Wing Commander