If we are to read the Old Testament literally, are we also supposed to believe the literal interpretation in the story of Babel? That God seeded us with different languages because we angered him with a high soaring tower? That all of the sudden neighbor couldn't understand neighbor? Is this supposed to be our genuinely accepted theory on how different languages came about? I highly doubt it, as scholars and linguists have concrete written evidence and observations on how languages diversify and morph over both, time and distance. New languages were literally produces within the last few thousand years, and some have changed so much over time that they are even hard to recognize by today's standards. So we know that Babel couldn't be a realistic event, yet it is talked about in the Genesis with such accuracy and description it almost feels like a contemporary history book would describing the realistic events of WWII. Now comes the logic, if the Genesis produced one story which is fictitious or maybe metaphoric in nature, why should we accept others as genuine, literal truth?
Your "scholars and linguists" have yet to disprove Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning GOD Created the Heavens and the Earth". Now that is the very first verse in all of Scripture. If they can't start at "the beginning", and disprove that, how smart are you to believe that they can jump over into Genesis 11, and disprove the Scriptural Record of Babel ??? BTW, fact or not, the "The Tower" was never completed, huh? And these wouldn't be some of the same "scholars" who told Chris Columbus that the Earth was "flat", would they? And have you ever stop to consider that GOD did them an Enormously Gracious Service by stopping them before they got up to high to Breathe? By the time they realized that they couldn't breathe as usual, they would have been dead .