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I know its not phrased as well as it could be, but as it stands, the claim made by the Creation Museum goes unchallenged when I doubt any linguistic I work with or whose work I'm familiar with would accept it at face value or see it as anything but a severe distortion of current knowledge.
I know its not phrased as well as it could be, but as it stands, the claim made by the Creation Museum goes unchallenged when I doubt any linguistic I work with or whose work I'm familiar with would accept it at face value or see it as anything but a severe distortion of current knowledge.
I'll await a reply before I continue editing.[[User:Mirror|Mirror]] 14:01, 11 July 2007 (EDT)
I'll await a reply before I continue editing.[[User:Mirror|Mirror]] 14:01, 11 July 2007 (EDT)
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I'm in the middle of a contest, so I can't really give you the time that I should to reply, but I'll try. One of the difficulties that I see is the merging of idea of an evolutionary model of origins versus the taken at face value Biblical account of origins. When you're talking across apples and oranges it's going to be tough to move back and forth. Any edits that you make should be straight forward enough to be followed by kids doing reports in school. In other words don't dumb down the data, but put it in a form where even those who aren't experts on the subject can easily follow the writing. You are correct that when I say the Tower of Babel predates civilizations that I should have said except those found in the Babylonian or Sumerian region. But then again there is more apples and oranges, since with that statement would be the implicit understanding that the Middle Eastern civilizations would have predated all others by at least a few centuries, and that isn't generally acknowledged. If you look at the Global Warming or Creation or Evolution articles, you'll see that words like "most" don't always work when describing viewpoints as there are very strong differences over who are experts in a field. Personally, I consider "some" to be a neutral word.
If I may make a suggestion, as this is obviously an area where you have a great love, why not create a linguistics article or something of that nature where you can expound modern linguistic theories in a more neutral setting? Then, if it is appropriate, we can have a little blurb in this article with a link to that area for those seeking more information in linguistics itself, but that still keeps the focus of the Tower of Babel article on the Biblical story itself. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:35, 11 July 2007 (EDT)