Ask any Bible believing Christian how the different languages originated and he or she will probably refer you to the 9th verse of the 11th chapter of the Book of Genesis which reads:

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth.

If skepticism rears its ugly head as often happens when Biblical answers are asserted, the believer cites as proof the first verse of Genesis 11 where it states:

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

However, if we turn back to the 10th chapter of the Book of Genesis, after the "Great Flood" but before the alleged incident at Babel, we discover another contradiction:

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their nations. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their nations.

The Tower of Babel story further insults our intelligence by pandering to the long discredited concept of a flat, motionless earth located at the center of a simple three-tiered universe with heaven above and hell below. When this story is added to the equally discredited accounts of the Creation and the Great Flood, the trustworthiness of the entire Book of Genesis, one of Christianity's founding documents, is brought into serious question. If the foundation is untrue, what is then built upon that foundation must likewise be untrue. Carrying it to its logical conclusion, we must then ask, "What does that say about the credibility of the rest of the Old Testament, as well as of the New Testament?"