User blog comment:SouthWriter/No Supernatural Intervention/@comment-257949-20100707205250

I started reading the Bible a month or two back, casually. I got as far as Genesis 20, or something. However, it did give me some ideas. Take the idea of God changing the languages. It doesn't say this; it says that He sowed confusion amongst the men of Shinar. My interpretation is that people started to have doubts, but neither side could understand the other's arguments. This is the confusion, and the failing to understand one another, that the Bible talks about in Genesis 11 - at least, according to my interpretation.

I suppose that if you wanted to think how a completed Babel would have affected society you should think how big it is. If it were ziggurat-sized that would have had some leverage for a while, before it was surpassed. But according to sources on Wikipedia, if they did build it solely of mud-brick, they could feasibly have built it into the upper atmosphere... I suppose the ultimate effect it will have on society will be its height, and with increase there so would its fame and subsequent reverberation in society.

No Supernatural Intervention is a very interesting timeline in my opinion. Please continue with it!