History of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy/Babelfish

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The Babelfish in The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a small fish one implants in the ear? canal in order to understand all spoken languages. The name comes from the Bible, in which God made everyone speak different languages for trying to build a tower to the heavens — the Tower of Babel.

The babelfish was put forth as an example for the NONexistence of God. Something that perfect could only exist if there was a god to create it, so the babelfish proved there was a god. Proof denies faith however, and faith is the standard by which we are to know God. Oops, says God, without faith I have no followers, and disappears in a theological puff of smoke.

The web portal [Alta Vista]? named its free online text translation service Babelfish after this fictional species. The existance of this online service in no way proves or disproves God's existance on the Internet.

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	Revision 7 . . (edit) December 10, 2001 9:04 am by Bryan Derksen [collapsing redirect chain]
	Revision 6 . . December 10, 2001 9:02 am by Bryan Derksen [entry already exists, moving text over]
	Revision 5 . . December 10, 2001 8:58 am by Bryan Derksen [the online translation service, plus links]
	Revision 4 . . December 10, 2001 8:11 am by Alan D [babelfish as proof of nonexistence of God.]
	Revision 3 . . December 10, 2001 7:49 am by (logged).91.162.xxx [Translation device]
	Revision 2 . . September 30, 2001 3:56 am by Mincus [and again]