By Bethany Youngblood
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"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 11:8-9 KJV)
The Biblical
account of the Tower of Babel is a familiar one. We know that it was at Babel
that God divided the languages and thereby scattered the people in all
directions to fill the earth and multiply. But we are not so familiar with the
span of time between the dispersion and the many civilizations that were
created by the migration from Babel. Evolutionary models for how man populated
the globe are so common that when confronted with the question of how it
happened from a biblical perspective and within a biblical timeframe, we often
come up short for answers.
