Number 3 of 17 in the *Twilight Zone* Series:
by Farrell Till
Why do nations speak different languages? If you think it is because of isolationism in the distant past that made cultural interchanges and hence consistency in language evolution impossible, then think again. A trip to the Twilight Zone will give you the right answer. You see, there was a time when "the whole earth had one language and one speech" (Gen. 11:1), but the linguistically unified people of that time ticked off the petulant Yahweh, who "confused" their language so that they couldn't understand one another. Ever since the world has been linguistically divided.
What did those people do that so irritated the whimsical Yahweh? Well, silly, they tried to build a tower whose top would reach "unto heaven." What else? It's all right there in God's inspired word. If people would just open their Bibles more often to experience the joys of traipsing through the Twilight Zone, they wouldn't have to ask stupid questions. It makes perfectly good sense to suppose that a linguistically unified people trying to build a tower to heaven would quite naturally arouse Yahweh's ire. What if they succeeded? What then? The upstarts would have probably undertaken even more ambitious projects.
