Scientists Confirm Bible--again

From Hal Lindsey's "Countdown"

Though many secularists in our society prefer to focus on the

few areas of conflict between modern science and biblical history,

archologists and other scientists continue to confirm the

overwhelming amount of information that the Bible tells us about how

our world developed.

The latest area of agreement is in the theory of how languages

developed. Twenty years ago, the biblical story of Babel and how God

confounded man by creating many languages from one would have seemed

like pure myth to most linguistic researchers. Now, a growing number

of them believe that all of today's modern languages began with one

original--in the Middle East.

"A few linguistic experts now firmly believe that, by analyzing

the evolution and approximate sound and meaning of certain words,

they have reconstructed the basic vocabulary of a remote ancestral

language that modern man has never heard or seen," the New York Times

reported Nov.24,1987. "They call it Nostratic, for the Latin

'noster', for 'our'. Nostratic was spoken in the Middle East

sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago, the researchers say,

and from it evolved all the European languages as well as many

African and Asian ones."

Isn't this precisely what is described in Genesis, Chapter

11:19?

"Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

"And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a

plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

"And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and

burn them thoroughly.' And they used brick for stone and they used

tar for mortar.

"And they said, 'Come,let us build for ourselves a city and a

tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for

ourselves a name;lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the

whole earth.'

"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the

sons of men had built.

"And the Lord said,'Behold, they are one people, and they all

have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now

nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.'

"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

the whold earth;and they stopped building the city.

"Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord

confused the language of the whole earth;and from there the Lord

scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth."