Talk:Great Earthquake

Peleg lived 239 years and this date taken at his half life

"the name of one was Peleg;

for in his days was the earth divided;"

A great earthquake as never seen before or since,

broke the earth into partslink=https://joebatchelor.net/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline <--Timeline

2124 BC

and the pieces moved many miles apart.

Many people were trapped on these islands of land.

This event to be the division of the North and South American continents

from the European and African continents by the Atlantic ocean.

God confused their language,

so that they would not be able to understand one another.

The dispersion of people across the earth

was generally along extended family lines.

This creation of different languages

was thus a sudden, miraculous event.

Hungarian is not an Indo-European language.

Basque, the language of a group of people in present-day Spain,

is from another language family altogether.

Each language is totally unrelated to any outside of its group.

Some of the most ‘primitive’ tribes speak languages with extremely complex grammar.

The Sino-Asiatic language family,

which includes Chinese, Japanese and Korean,

gives no evidence that it descended from a ‘common ancestor’ language

with any of the Indo-European ones—

or any other language from another family.

Estimates of the number of different ‘language families’ vary, and are difficult.

But they are generally in the vicinity of some 8 to 20 (commonly 12 or 13).

A small number of languages,

separately created at Babel,

has diversified into the huge variety of languages we have today.

Mountains were formed and as the crushed, thickened, buckled, and sediment-laden continents sank into the mantle

sea level had to rise in compensation.

Sea level is about 1000 meters higher today

than it was before the flood.

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