To me it seems grossly unfair that while schools busily teach concepts of modern archaeo-linguistics, talking about “Indo-European” languages and the “evolution” of French from Latin, the quite plausible concept of Wrathful Dispersion is suppressed in our schools.
The opponents of Wrathful Dispersion maintain that it is really just Babelism, rechristened so that it might fly under the radar of those who insist that religion has no place in the state-funded classroom. Babelism was clearly rooted in the Judeo-Christian story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1–9); it held that the whole array of modern languages was created by God at a single stroke, for the immediate purpose of disrupting humanity’s hubristic attempt to build a tower that would reach to heaven: “Let us go down,” God says to Himself, “and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” Wrathful Dispersion is couched in more cautiously neutral language; rather than tying linguistic diversity to a specific biblical event, it merely argues that the differences among modern languages are too perverse to have arisen spontaneously, and must therefore be the work of some wrathful (and powerful) disperser who deliberately set out to accomplish a confusion of tongues.
For the sake of equal time and “teaching the controversy,” shouldn’t we be making sure our children know all the different viewpoints out there?
I started to make a wiseass comment about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I see the original author already covered that base. Then, in his comments, I found that (as usual) be careful what you wish for… there already is such a “science” called Edenics.