WHERE AND WHEN DID IT HAPPEN? - Conclusion

 "Unlike biologists, linguist do not have fossils to guide them through the past." The magazine adds that one evolutionary linguist arrives at his conclusions by "mathematically informed guesswork." 

Nevertheless, "linguistic fossils" do exist. What are these fossils, and what do they reveal regarding the origin of human languages? The New Encyclopedia Britannica explains: "The earliest records of written language, the only linguistic fossils man can hope for to have, go back no more than about 4,000 or 5,000 years." Where did archaeologists discover these "linguistic fossils," or records of written language"? In lower Mesopotamia-the site of ancient Shinar.  Hence, the available physical evidence is in agreement with the facts stated in the Bible.

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