Even if your magic comes from God, it's still magic. If you pray for rain
and get it, do you also say that the water isn't water in the same way that
magic isn't magic?
Um, are you trying to explain to a Christian what his theology is
supposed to be?
No, I'm trying to explain what your English is supposed to be. We don't
have special words or phrases to express the idea "George Bush vomits" that
we refuse to use to refer to you or I vomiting. Why do you insist that people
do this when the actions are being performed by God?
So, right around several thousand years ago,
you start off with approximately 100 languages (since linguists are
guessing that there are about 100 families of languages in existence
nowadays) all highly regular, highly complex, and highly *different*
>from one another.
No, you don't. What's the difference between "regular" and "not regular"
when there are so many rules that each one applies to just a few words
_anyway_? This isn't a matter of linguistics, but of logic.
You're also not recognizing the difference between "we can trace back
details only that far" and "languages only existed that far". Also, they
haven't all been traced to the same part of the world.