I am sometimes curious about what the physical world was like before the flood. Like housing, infrastructure, technology. I wonder if there was anything like computers or electronics beforehand ?
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.And this was written by Solomon, who was given a special gift of wisdom.
I once read a book called "Did Genesis Man Conquer Space?" They may have had things like we would not believe, but who knows for sure?
**I am sometimes curious about what the physical world was like before the flood. Like housing, infrastructure, technology. I wonder if there was anything like computers or electronics beforehand ?**
Steel is the basis, directly or indirectly, of everything we call a modern convenience. No steel= no electricity, no horseless carriages, no plastics, etc.
There’s no indication that they were that far along in manufacturing before the flood.
The ‘nothing new under the sun’ implies that man hasn’t created anything from nothing. He has seen God’s creatures perform tasks that he himself cannot do, but by using them as models, has tried to duplicate their capabilities, whether it be navigating under, on, or above the surface of the earth. Outerspace? Man simply realized he had to take some air with him when getting that high.
The human brain is still the model for computers, and always has been. It is still unsurpassed in it’s capabilities. Man still hasn’t created from nothing a better living creature of any type than what God has arleady created. Man still gets excited when he finds a another species that he didn’t know existed.
The pre-flood people didn’t need as much technology as us. They were stronger, faster, smarter, healthier... They certainly didn’t need medical technology. I imagine that they could live a pretty good life without all the modern things we have and so there wouldn’t be a drive to develop these technologies.