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[[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Tower of Babel'' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]
[[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Tower of Babel'' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]
The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdōl'') was the structure built by the descendants of the [[Great Flood|Flood]] survivors according to [[Genesis]] 11, "whose top may reach unto heaven."
The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdal'') was the structure built by the descendants of the [[Great Flood|Flood]] survivors according to [[Genesis]] 11, "whose top may reach unto heaven."
The Tower of Babel account provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve: the different languages today that lack a common origin, and the immense diversity in ethnicity.
The Tower of Babel account provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve: the different languages today that lack a common origin, and the immense diversity in ethnicity.