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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)
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)
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If all of the historical and linguistic criticism of the story-as-fact were in separate articles, that would be intellectually dishonest, wouldn't it? No small number of people take the Biblical story as historical fact, not just ancient myth or a children's story, and to leave that unchallenged in the article would be bias by omission. It would be the equivalent of a historian dismissing the story without considering the similar myths from related cultures
As far as I have read, the civilizations of the fertile crescent ARE the first civilizations if you define civilization by complex divisions of labor and intensive agriculture, which appears to be the standard definition. Either Sumer, Ancient Egypt, or the Indus Valley culture being the first (though as evidence pours in, we may eventually recognize earlier cultures as civilizations, as we've come to see some pre-Columbian North American Indian socieites).
I have to disagree with "some" and "most", particularly in this case. To me, "most" means "a majority". The genetic model of languages is the only theory I know of that has support from living professional linguists, though we may debate extreme sub-theories like Proto-World and other single-origin hypotheses. [[User:Mirror|Mirror]] 17:14, 11 July 2007 (EDT)