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The omnipotent God was jealous or scared of human accomplishments
Firstly I'd like to say that I have no intention of picking up an small wording inconsitencies or even errors between the historical accounts. I think that is too pedantic and occurs even in real historical work.
I think the stronger discrediting is from the macro-level human errors in the writing of the stories, or to put it another way, the silliness of the whole thing. I was laughing out loud as I approached the end of Exodus, thinking "jesus christ(!
) people take this seriously"
Anyway, a jealous or scared omnipotent God?
I'm not even needing to prove whether this story was a reasonable source for our different languages. Im sure if we wanted we could show that the biblical story is very unlikely. I guess DS would poll the top most intelligent language experts and see how many think we built a tower that was too high. Do you think many would think that?
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"Design and purpose, not height, was the issue at hand."
Here is a great article about The Tower of Babel that will explain a bit more.