Antediluvian

The story of the flood in the book of Genesis gives few details. In Sunday School we get a picture of a white family dressed in robes, living in a primitive, backward society, with Noah and his three sons building a monstrous ship in their back yard, out in a desert. And yet, the Sunday School picture is not the only one possible. The biblical materials suggest that within a handful of generations of Adam (and several generations preceding Noah), people were using iron tools. A remarkable thing, considering that it is clear archeologically that the common use of iron didn't begin in the Ancient Near East until at least 1200 BC. Yet the flood predates that date by thousands of years. What if, for the sake of fiction, we assume that the antediluvians developed a high-tech civilization? And what if we can tell the story of the end of a high-tech society by Noah's Flood in a way that remains faithful to the narrative of Genesis?