Some reject Noah's flood because they are committed to an evolutionary, long-age geological framework that the flood would disprove.
According to Les Feldick, scientists and intellectuals are 'willingly ignorant' of the flood because accepting it would overturn the millions-of-years timescale required by evolution. Textbooks and professors ignore or deny the flood, presenting mixed-up geologic layers as proof of evolution rather than flood upheaval.
2 Peter 3:3-5 — This passage predicts scoffers who willfully ignore the flood and assert that things have continued unchanged since creation.
The Bible, in 2 Peter 3:3-5, says that in the last days scoffers will come, walking after their own lusts, asking, 'Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' Those who reject the flood are described as 'willingly ignorant'—they choose not to remember the creation, the flood, and the coming judgment. This indicates that rejection of the flood is a moral and intellectual choice, not a lack of evidence.
Les Feldick teaches that rejection of Noah's flood is rooted in a commitment to evolutionary theory and a long-age geological timeline. He points out that textbooks and secular education ignore or deny the flood because accepting it would dismantle the evolutionary framework. He emphasizes that geological evidence is mixed up, not in the neat order evolution requires, yet professors present it as proof of evolution. Les also highlights that the flood is found in the legends of every major culture, showing it actually happened, but the intellectual community remains willingly ignorant.
Les explains that evolution relies on a geologic column with fossils in a specific order, but in reality these layers are all mixed up. Young students are taught this as logical, and geology professors claim evolution is the only thing that makes sense. Accepting Noah's flood, which occurred only about 5,000 years ago, would require abandoning the millions of years that evolution needs, so the flood is rejected.
Les says you cannot find a single college or high school textbook in literature, history, or science that maintains the fact of Noah's flood. They totally ignore it, and if forced, they deny it. Even when literature textbooks mention Genesis for its literary value, they never agree with the flood account.
No, Les points out that the flood is part of the myths and legends of every major culture, including Babylonian, Polynesian, and Inca cultures. These legends all describe a great universal flood, which Les sees as evidence that the flood actually happened and was handed down from the survivors.
Evolution's Mixed-Up Geologic Column
Les exposes the lie that fossil layers are always in order; they are found mixed up, yet professors present evolution as the only logical explanation, causing young people to doubt the Bible.
Textbooks Ignore the Flood
Les states that no college or high school textbook, whether in literature, history, or science, ever maintains the fact of Noah's flood; they either ignore it or deny it.
Flood Legends in Every Culture
Les cites that the flood is found in the legends of major cultures like Babylonian, Polynesian, and South American, showing its historical reality yet scientists still reject it.
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And I think perhaps that's the reason, then, that Noah lost his influence, because we're going to see in the moments to follow. The human race is going to take another tack straight down, in spite of all the knowledge that Noah and his three sons have concerning the will of God.
Willing Ignorance of Scientists
Les says scientists, for the most part, reject the flood and are 'willingly ignorant' of it, despite the undeniable evidence found in world cultures.
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And then in our last study, remember, we explained that the flood was not just a simple rising of rainwater and that it was a quiet flooding of everything, but rather it was tumultuous, it was cataclysmic, it was so fantastic that the whole planet erupted instantaneously to such a degree that all of the evidence of that pre-flood civilization has been all but totally removed.
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Now, I think we can leave that, and we can come all the way down to verse 19. And these are the three sons of Noah, and of them, those three men, of them was, what's the next two words, the whole earth was overspread. Now again, flying in the face of what most people are taught in our secular educational system, contrary to most of science today, we maintain that the earth that now is our mountain…
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And so by the time we get up to about 2400 B.C., or about 1600 years after Adam, the human race has gone down so far morally, and they have come into such a period of violence and what have you, that God said, I'm going to have to destroy them. And so we come into Noah's flood, and come out of the flood of course with Noah and his three sons and their wives.
2 Peter 3:3-5: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Peter directly addresses those who reject the flood, calling them willing ignorant scoffers.
According to Les Feldick, scientists reject the flood because they are committed to evolution and vast ages of geological time. Accepting a worldwide flood would overturn that chronological framework, so they willingly ignore or deny it.
Les says no college or high school textbook in literature, history, or science maintains the fact of the flood. They ignore it entirely, and if they must, they deny it.
Yes, Les notes that the flood is in the legends of every major culture, such as Babylonian, Polynesian, and Inca, which he sees as proof that a flood actually happened and was handed down.
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