Since Mac already more than adequately covered the whole birthing issue, I'll save myself some time and simply say, yeah, what she said.

You go on to mention language,

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Ok, having said that. Personally, I find the language thing as an immense stumbling block for those Atheists who feel there was an original pair, or even a sub-societal group...that branched out to different parts of our globe. You see, in my mind, if that were true, then all languages would have some striking similarities both in speech and print, and it is a given that some do, especially Latin or Germanic based languages, but this is not the case when you compare say English with Chinese, for example.


You will notice that languages do bear a striking similarity to each other, as in the regions in which they are spoken.
The time scales in question are far more than "a few thousand years." Homosapeins have been around for at least 150,000 years, a very long time for the alteration of the spoken word, English itself has undergone vast changes in a mere 400 years, to such a degree that it would be nearly incomprehensible to you and I today.
Given these vast time scales, it is hardly surprising that languages are so vastly different.
You mention print as one of your examples, the written word has been around for a minimum of six thousand years, the oldest examples from China, ideograms that were marked into fragments of bone, which were presumably used for divination.
Each culture developed tier own unique forms of the written word, as separated by such vast distances, contact between early societies was non-existent.

I have to stop here, and ask at this point, if you are a biblical literalist, as you bring up the story of the tower of Babel. Using it as an example of a factual event.
Before I go into any real detail on that particular story, which comes from older tales which were altered, and used by the biblical author(s), I would caution you to use such examples with care, as it can be conclusivly demonstrated that such tales are not a unique creation of those who wrote those words.


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