Chimp DNA Mutation Study--Selective Yet Surprising

***Thanks for the links although I’m puzzled as to why you posted them, they don’t address the issue of how many people where on the planet and how many languages they spoke during the Bronze Age.***

The article from Dr. Carter didn’t include a lot of information that he gives in his power point presentation. My bad..... I assumed that it did.

I put in the links about the Miautso people because they provide extra-biblical confirmation of the biblical account of the flood.

When missionaries found the Miautso they had no written language (and obviously had not seen or read a bible), they relied on oral accounts and traditions. They were meticulous about their genealogies and recited them at weddings and funerals. Their lineage goes back to Nuah (and eventually all the way back to “Dirt”) through Lo-Shen. Lo-Shen had two brothers named Lo-Han and Lo-Jahphu. We would call them Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Nuah and his sons, according to Miautso tradition, survived a global flood. When you read their account, it tracks pretty closely with the biblical account.

I don’t think that I could possibly give you any links that would change your mind... but any study done on the number of people and the number of languages from an early time period would have to be based on models. These articles will show you that there are viable models that support the biblical accounts:

http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html
http://creation.com/population-growth-since-flood
http://creation.com/where-are-all-the-people

Here is an interesting article about language:

http://creation.com/the-tower-of-babel-account-affirmed-by-linguistics

***The evidence that there were more than 8 and that they spoke more than one is overwhelming.***

I would say that the evidence is not overwhelming. I’m sure you could link articles taking the other side.

The only thing that anyone can do to defend their position is to propose a plausible model and see if the evidence fits. I believe that the Creationist (Biblical) side has done that.

Thank you, Dear Sisters in Christ, for your two beautifully supportive posts!

When it reaches the point that another (self-claimed) believer questions one's very roots of belief, what is left for one to say in one's own defense?

Thank you for your testimonies, and for all the wonderful insights you are bringing to this discussion -- now that you have the time to do so!

May our Lord richly bless you in your daily challenges, and in your sharing with us, here!!

When it reaches the point that another (self-claimed) believer questions one's very roots of belief, what is left for one to say in one's own defense?

Exactly NOTHING, dear brother in Christ!

IMHO, FWIW.

Such folk are not just questioning you, they are judging you. And the criterion of judgment that they use is the "correctness" of your understanding of Holy Scripture, as they see it.

IOW, what they are implicitly saying is that your salvation depends on your "correct" understanding of Scripture, and not so much about how you live your life.

Yet to me, a Christian life is not so much defined by what one "knows"; it is defined by how one lives — following Christ.

Christ tells us to love our neighbor as ourself; to be a mediator of His peace, love, light, forgiveness, kindness, understanding, in faith and hope, into this world of mortality. He does not authorize us to be the "judge" of anything, let alone of our neighbor.

Judgment is His exclusive privilege — to be exercised when He comes the next time, with fire in His eyes, and a flaming sword in His hand....

That being the case, my best recommendation to all is to cultivate humility, or poverty of spirit. This is what gains a reward in Heaven. What one knows — or thinks one knows — is completely irrelevant on Judgment Day.

Just my humble thoughts on the matter, FWIW.

May the love and peace and mercy and light of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you always — you, and all your dear ones!

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