Interesting, I just looked at the post you linked to.... you have been thinking on the same lines, as well.
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In Sunday school (many moons ago) I was taught that God confused the languages of the people due to their "pride" in attempting to reach heaven by building a tower in Babel.
I've since understood the deeper meaning. Men can accomplish many things that they should not. The following verse from Genesis 11 is quite chilling to me.
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”