“And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.”
Gen 10:25 is sometimes understood as a scientific comment on plate tectonic movement as indicating a time when the land masses (that once formed a super continent called Pangea) split asunder. In turn this is used to suggest that the earth is “young” (less than 6,000 years old).
Apart from the fact that a catastrophic separation of continents in a very short period of time is a geophysical impossibility this is a classic example of bad interpretation.
Even a casual (contextual) reading of this verse suggests that we are dealing with the fall of the tower of Babel (in the very next chapter) when the earth was of “one language” (11:1) and they were “scattered” (11:9) by God. Although a different Hebrew word is employed (not divided), the idea is the same – God scattered and divided the human race in the Levant by confusing the language and there making “global” cooperation more difficult.
If one doubts this interpretation, then one simply has to look at the genealogy of Eber. The genealogy of Eber (or Heber 1 Chron 5:13; 8:22; Luke 3:35) demonstrates that he was a descendant of Shem through Arpaachsad (Gen 10:22, 24); and a progenitor of a group of peoples (v.21), embracing the Hebrews (ch.11:16-26). So we can safely say that the “tower of Babel” incident exactly fits the timeframe of (H)eber’s son Peleg whose very name means “division”.
So it was in his days that the earth was dived into separate language communities and the project of globalism was halted. This is relevant (especially today) because a similar global project is underway, not driven by common language but by finance (the language that everyone understands) in the construction of another all-pervasive controlling Babylon.
In conclusion, when we combine very poor Bible interpretation with pseudo-science in order to build “creation theories” we get utter nonsense.
1st Peter: Some New Testament Allusions