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 evidence that there were more than 8 and that they spoke more than one is overwhelming.
Shalom Aleychem, Shaef.
***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.