The Flood and the Tower of Babel - Two Fundamental Dangers That Beset Mankind

The flood story and also the tower of babel outline two fundamental dangers that beset mankind. One is the probability that blindness and sin will produce a natural catastrophe, or entice one. The other is, beware of social structures that overreach, because they'll also produce fragmentation and integration. And so it's quite remarkable, i think, we've got both of the permanent existential dangers that present themselves to humanity already identified. At the end of the story of adam and eve, there's like a fall into history, right? So in one way, history begins with the fall, but there's like a second fall, i think, with the flood and the tower of Babel....