Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9
"....this ‘grunts-to-grammar’ evolutionary scenario indeed has major problems.
--One prediction of the theory is that the further back one goes in the history of language in general, and of any language in
particular, the simpler it should appear.
--On the contrary, it becomes more complex, with all manner of grammatical and semantic subtleties that are progressively lost in later language, quite opposite to evolutionary predictions.
To illustrate, the Old English of 1,000 years ago had four cases for nouns, with remnants of a fifth, each duly inflected, plus different inflections in the conjugation of verbs.
Many of these features were lost even in Middle English, and more still are lost in Modern English, e.g. in verbs the subjunctive mood, and the distinction between second person singular and plural."
CMI
Genesis 11:9
"....this ‘grunts-to-grammar’ evolutionary scenario indeed has major problems.
--One prediction of the theory is that the further back one goes in the history of language in general, and of any language in
--On the contrary, it becomes more complex, with all manner of grammatical and semantic subtleties that are progressively lost in later language, quite opposite to evolutionary predictions.
To illustrate, the Old English of 1,000 years ago had four cases for nouns, with remnants of a fifth, each duly inflected, plus different inflections in the conjugation of verbs.
Many of these features were lost even in Middle English, and more still are lost in Modern English, e.g. in verbs the subjunctive mood, and the distinction between second person singular and plural."
CMI