Rebuilding After the Flood

The global flood destroyed everything, but the descendants of Noah quickly adapted and rebuilt, showing just how intelligent and remarkable they were.

The Rebuilding of Civilization

The flood destroyed civilization and rearranged the whole surface of the earth. While forests regrew and resources were rediscovered, humans made do with whatever shelters they could find and materials they could easily fashion.

Human remains found around the world (including those named Homo erectus, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon) show that the immigrants from Babel found shelter in newly formed caves and made tools out of rocks and sticks to meet basic needs. They left behind artifacts, musical instruments, ceremonial burials, and fire pits, which show that they were intelligent and fully human.

Within the lifetime of Noah and his sons, the families who left Babel began rediscovering resources and using the knowledge from pre-flood times to quickly build remarkable civilizations.

God Scatters the Nations

When Noah’s descendants disobeyed God’s command to fill the earth, God gave them different languages, causing them to spread over the earth. The scattering of people explains the formation of different people groups.

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 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 11:1–9)

The Entrance of Human Religion

At Babel, humans rejected God’s plan, worshipping the creation rather than the Creator and following their own way rather than God’s way. All human religions have followed their example, inventing myths to replace God’s account of creation and Noah’s flood. They ignore God’s warnings of judgment and his promises of blessing.

Babel Explains Our Differences

At Babel, God created numerous languages. Over time, these languages changed into the thousands of different languages we have today. Yet modern languages still follow patterns of the original languages at Babel.

These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:32)

All the humans who settled the earth after the flood descended from Noah’s three sons. Yet the human gene pool split up after Babel. In just a few generations, different combinations of previously existing genetic information resulted in distinct people groups, each with superficial differences, including different skin tones and eye shapes.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place. (Acts 17:26)

Learn More About Babel During Family Adventure Days

We have two more Mondays of our Family Adventure Days here at the Creation Museum, where you can learn about Babel and so much more! If you haven’t visited yet, now is the time to take advantage of all the extra perks, including free gifts, behind-the-scenes tours, live animal encounters, and special discounts.

Family Adventure Days end on May 19, 2025. Tickets must be purchased on our Family Adventure Days page, so don’t miss out on this unique opportunity.