As you explore the Creation Museum’s walk through history, the fourth of the 7 C’s you’ll encounter is Confusion. Up to this point in history, all of mankind shared one language, but a little more than a hundred years after the global flood, we see the rise of a new rebellion with far-reaching consequences.
Though God had directed mankind to fill the earth as they multiplied post-flood, they chose to do the opposite. Rather than “be dispersed over the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4), they schemed to build a city with a high tower, intending it as a testament to their own glory and an avenue for remaining together in opposition to God’s command.
Armed with this purpose, the people began construction. But God, in his infinite wisdom, chose to intervene by confusing their language. Without the easy, universal communication they had always known, the people gave up their building plans and began to scatter by groups as they ought to have done from the beginning.
Babel, as the city became known, marks the historical splitting of languages and explains the language families we see evidence of in the world today.
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:9)
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