Babel – Matty (Headwind)

September 5, 2021

September 5

Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 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. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
(Genesis 11:1-4) NKJV

We’re told that, after Noah’s flood, the people decided to stay together as a community and build a city. That wasn’t what God had in mind. He was working with a deadline.

September 1, 2021

September 1

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 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.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because 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.
(Genesis 11:1-2, 8-9) KJV

It’s an accepted belief in popular science (SciPop) that, at some time in the past, all of the continents were part of one super-continent. This is known as Pangaea.

October 12, 2020February 26, 2022

Math is the Language of Faith

Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they had built, and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
(Genesis 11:5-9) Good News Translation

The story of Babylon (Babel) shows us that having a universal language is dangerous. It gives us the power to do things which would be otherwise impossible. Guess what? Math is a universal language. Go figure.

September 6, 2020October 19, 2020

Creationism Schism

This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
(Titus 3:8-9) NKJV

Tectonic breakup of Pangaea had to be after Babel. It’s a logically certain conclusion. It’s the only way to reconcile the Bible with the physical evidence. The result is a perfect harmonization of scripture with science.

September 6, 2020September 1, 2021

Hypothesis 35

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother’s name was Joktan.
(1 Chronicles 1:19) ESV

The Pangaea super-continent was broken into continental landmasses sometime after the tower of Babel. People and fauna were dispersed to all corners of Pangaea and then the tectonic plates formed.

September 5, 2020September 5, 2021

Scattered Abroad

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
(Genesis 11:7-9) NKJV

You would think that something as significant as the birth of all human culture taking place after the dispersal from Noah’s ark would be noticed. Sure enough, that’s what the record of history tells us happened.

September 5, 2020October 12, 2021

A Universal Language

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
(Genesis 11:5-6) NKJV

People think that math is real. That’s because its use in engineering and medicine produces a beneficial result. There’s another side to math which is theoretical. Theoretical means imaginary.

September 3, 2020September 3, 2021

Distribution of Biodiversity

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
(Hebrews 11:1) KJV

There were two horses on Noah’s ark but now there are at least seven species in genus Equus. That’s speciation or macro-evolution. It’s not a problem because the process of evolution has a scriptural context.

September 2, 2020August 29, 2021

Pangaean Mediterranean

Did Pangaea have a precursor to the Mediterranean?

From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
(Genesis 10:5) NKJV

We have very little scriptural account of what happened in the period between Noah’s flood and Peleg, besides Babel. What we do have, however, indicates that Pangaea had a precursor of the Mediterranean sea.

September 2, 2020September 2, 2021

The Sons of Noah

The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
(Genesis 10:2-4) NKJV

The time between Noah’s flood and Peleg’s tectonics was when the dispersal from Babel took place. From Babel small family groups spread out, figuratively speaking, to the ends of the Earth.