Many people know the Biblical tale of the Tower of Babel, when God broke apart the world's singular language into 70 different branches.

Most linguists don't give this a second thought, or anything more than folklore.

But I've read some very convincing literature that traces a large portion of many of the world's great languages back to one parent language that is very similar to modern Hebrew. The evidence is pretty convincing.

For example the English word "DiReCtion" is very similar to the Hebrew word "DeReC" meaning "route". Another basic example is the Japanese word "SaMuRai" which is very similar to the Hebrew word "ShoMeR" which means "watchman".

More example are here: http://www.edenics.org/languages-3/

My question is, what is the reason this theory is not more widely recognized? Is it because it tries to legitimize something from the Bible and is therefore seen as unscientific?