ED. COM. This is no surprise
to us. It is exactly what you would
expect from the Biblical record of the
origin and dispersion
of modern human populations. Genesis tells that all human
populations are ultimately derived from the people who gathered
at the Tower of
Babel in the region we now call Iran. At that time
they all spoke one language.
God had told them to spread out
and fill the earth, but they wanted to make a
name for themselves,
rather than obey God’s instructions (Genesis 11:4). God
judged
them by splitting them into different language groups. This means
the
people who settled in Africa were derived from the original
population in Babel,
just like all other human populations.
Languages did not evolve in Africa by
turning ape noises into
human speech.
Language was originally programmed into
Adam’s human brain by
God, then re-programmed at Babel, and then creatively
modified and developed by our human minds as people spread
all over the world.
This is the real cause of the rich variation in language, even in fairly
small
populations. (Ref. linguistics, phonetics, genetics, judgement)
Creation Research.
The
simplification of languages from more complex structures has
always denoted
devolution of mankind rather than the
opposite.
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