This will probably sound crazy.

But I tend to believe that weapons could have been extremely advanced before the flood. I wouldn't outrule guns, or even more deadly weapons that we simply have not invented. The wickedness of man was unrestrained, but it was still a very short time after the fall. The possibilities are incredible.

Read about the Sphynx (which many Christian historians believe may have been built prior to the Flood) and you'll see that your theory isn't that crazy at all. Your idea is further supported by myths like Atlantis. Although, I will say, they probably had a very different type of technology then we do currently.

*agrees with Willow, but has not the time to say much *

I agree, the technology before the flood could have been extremely advanced. I mean, these people lived hundreds of years! They had time to develop this stuff. I think I heard somewhere that someone unearthed things like ancient batteries from before the flood or something, but I don't remember for sure. It's been too long.

*is liking his Atlantis history is plausible, even though it's post-Deluge in his world*

Come back when you have the time.

Hm, that is extremely interesting...I wonder if they'd even discovered electricity and stuff like that

Here's a question I've sometimes wondered. Since you people are talking about how they could have had the brains before the flood, I thought I'd ask this question, even though it's slightly impossible to answer without watching a video of the process:

How sophisticated did their technology have to be to build the ark?

And sorry Jon, if this is a little off topic, but you people mentioned them having better technology, so I thought maybe I'd throw that thought out there.

Anyway, it is very interesting. I think it is a possibility that they had the smarts and technology. Atlantis is a good example. (Although I read a very interesting theory on that one.) So what if they had guns? That would be very interesting. What if they had a sort of super computer before the Flood...wouldn't that be cool?
You know, I don't know if our generations are getting stupider or smarter. You get these stories of the pyramids and scientists can't quite figure out how they were built. Then you get stories of iPads, which are very nifty gadgets. You know?

They've found a battery, and an ancient computer thing used to calculate the movement of the stars and such.

*was about to say what Varon did *

I have multiple books dedicated to theories of how the ark could have been created. It is very very fascinating. The moon pool theory is really cool, too.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the ancient computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

And the battery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

Is there a thread where we could discuss those?

Not likely. But, these are just many... anomalies... in history, that lend credence to the claim that the civilization could have been very advanced back then.