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Pre-Flood Iron Smelting? The Tubal-Cain Timeline Problem

Genesis says Tubal-Cain forged tools of bronze and iron before the Flood (Genesis 4:22). But if you use the standard young earth timeline, the Flood happens around 2348 BCE, based on the genealogies in Genesis 5 and Noah being 600 years old during the Flood (Genesis 7:6). That means Tubal-Cain’s ironworking must happen before 2348 BCE. There’s just one problem. According to archaeometallurgy research, extractive iron metallurgy appears only on a limited scale in the early 2nd millennium BCE and expands much later during the Iron Age. Scholarly source: Erb-Satullo (2019) The Innovation and Adoption of Iron in the Ancient Near East Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory So if Genesis is literal history: Where is the pre-Flood iron industry? Either: • Genesis isn’t literal chronology • Tubal-Cain isn’t describing real metallurgy • Or the timeline is wrong Christians and historians, jump into the comments. What’s the explanation? #exchristian #christianfaith #christian #exvangelical #atheist #atheism #deconstruction #debate #agnostic