Babel / Göbekli Tepe Revisited

Plus one on more general post-Flood population.

Q I

How long was the Tower of Babel built?
https://www.quora.com/How-long-was-the-Tower-of-Babel-built/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University

Answered just now

I have seen a note, I think it could have been from Historia scholastica, or St.Thomas (disputed authorship) Postilla in libros Geneseos, that it took 40 of the years after Noah died and before Peleg was born.

Peleg was born 51 years after Noah died in a Septuagint chronology without the second Cainan. In one with one, add another 128 years.

This fits well with Göbekli Tepe by carbon dates being given a span of 1000 years, between “9600 BC” and “8600 BC” if the C14 proportion to C12 was rising in the atmosphere by around 11 times faster production than now.

Note well,this is more like city than tower of Babel, the Hebrew text (with Vulgate, Douay-Rheims, KJ) does not say one ceased to build the tower, only one ceased to build the city. If the “tower” was a rocket project (which would have failed before very recently) it can well have been divided into several parts and transmitted culturally to our times (Chinamen inventing fireworks, Greeks speaking of a man ascending into the chariot of the Sun, Phaeton, and of Perseus and Andromeda with some others taken up to the stars, Babylonians, Egyptians, Stonehengians observing the stars and so on). If you take Babylon as 32°32′11″N 44°25′15″E (c. 4°30′ both E and S of Göbekli Tepe), you have the inverse situation: the tower is stopped, but the city goes on.

Q II

Does the stupidity of the Tower of Babel story not disprove God? I mean you can’t build a tower past 7km.
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-stupidity-of-the-Tower-of-Babel-story-not-disprove-God-I-mean-you-can-t-build-a-tower-past-7km/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Answer requested by

Samuel Igali

Hans-Georg Lundahl

none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University

Answered Sat

Who says the project could have succeeded?

By the way, what about launching a tower up, then discarding bottom floor while launching some more, then middle floor and launching even more, then the top floor reaches the Moon? I mean, it is called a rocket now?

That project too could not have succeeded in Nimrod’s day. God interrupting the project would have given us the necessary time for things like finding appropriate rocket fuel and so on.

Q III

If you accept the Noah and the ark story, are all of us descended from Noah and his family inbreeding?
https://www.quora.com/If-you-accept-the-Noah-and-the-ark-story-are-all-of-us-descended-from-Noah-and-his-family-inbreeding/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Answer requested by

L. Stewart Hearl

Hans-Georg Lundahl

none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University

Answered Sat

Yes, we are. As very few genetic faults were as yet around, this was not very dramatic.

Perhaps most dramatic, the Neanderthal part of the heritage on the Ark included genes predisposing for diabetes.