I am wondering about what happenned immediately after everyone started speaking different languages. Did they all scatter to their own areas based solely on language? This seems highly unlikely at best. All of the people who spoke "Native American" (let's be general as it's hard to define what the actual languages were) ran off, then crossed an ocean or took a land bridge through Alaska and every single one of them settled in the Americas?
There was an argument earlier that all languages should be spoken everywhere today. This argument is completely valid. Wouldn't some groups stay in Babel regardless of their new language and "tough it out?" Why would everyone who speaks a certain language ALL stick together? Wouldn't they splinter, thus creating pockets of the same language in multiple areas throughout the world?
Ask yourself what would happen if the same thing happenned today in a given area. I doubt the residents of that area would scatter. Instead, they would likely try to find common ground and it's likely a new "common" language would be invented. Give humanity some credit for goodness sake. We don't always run away from crisis. Humans actually tend to embrace each other at such times. Of course, God could make us do anything. If that's the case, what's the point of living? God's calling the shots, so we're all subject to his whims.
This story suffers from the same plight as most of the other bible stories - that everybody in the world today traces their ancestry to a small area in the Middle East circa 2000 B.C. This is simply logistically impossible. A similar argument can be made for the post-flood world, where all of the animals scattered to parts of the globe in an orderly manner, never procreating along the way.
Just a note since this is my first post. I am not an atheist, I just don't believe in a personified God, who by the accounts of the Bible is far from a loving, caring, all-knowing being. Instead, the biblical God is vengeful, mistake-prone, and short-tempered. That's not exactly what I'm looking for in a God.
Thanks for reading.
-S
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