["Followup-To:" header set to talk.origins.]
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:27:45 +0000 (UTC),
Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
> "Ann Broomhead" <broomhed@world.std.com> wrote in message
> news:7418dcc4.0401241026.5ed5e62@posting.google.com...
>> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> news:<butoq1$4hq$0@pita.alt.net>...
>> > "Cheezits" <cheezits32@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:Xns947A4B5CBF133cheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.83...
>> > > laurieappieton@aol.com (LaurieAppIeton) won't even try to defend this
>> > > nonsense, but let's have some fun with it anyway:
>> > > > 1) no natural process which resulted in information forming
>> > > > automatically in matter, has ever been observed;
>> > >
>> > > No act of divine creation has ever been observed.
>> >
>> > Oh yes it has, Sue. When God confounded the languages at Babel, humanity
> was
>> > able to observe it. That's why we were scattered all over the earth, and
> we
>> > speak languages whose families cannot possibly have a common ancestor.
>> >
>> > Uncle Davey
>> > www.usenetpostes.com
>>
>> Oh, goodie. You want to claim that the Tower of Babel story is true.
>>
>> First, when was the Tower of Babel built?
>
> This was around the time of Nimrod, about 3,000 - 4,000 years BC-ish.
The fact that a number of languages actually predate this doesn't bother you
in the least?
<snip>
>>
>> How tall would the Tower of Babel have been if it had been completed?
>> (Note: I recommend you use the archaeological record to justify your
>> answer.)
>>
>
>
> This is a mere irrelevance. Kindly posit a common ancestor of Indo European
> and Finno-Ugric.
NOne is necessary. Linguistics does not require that any of the major
genetic language groups have any obvious or discernable links to each other.
This is a strawman of your own making.
--
Aaron Clausen
tao_of_cow/\alberni.net (replace /\ with @)
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