They ignore it because, as 2 Peter 3:5 says, they are 'willingly ignorant' of the flood and refuse to accept that the world was once destroyed by water.
Les Feldick explains that geology professors scoff at the idea of Noah's flood because accepting it destroys the evolutionary timeline of millions of years. He says they will not accept it, and college science textbooks never reference it. According to Les, this is not a lack of information but a deliberate refusal to learn: they have no desire to know the truth.
2 Peter 3:5 — This verse directly answers why the flood is ignored: Scripture says such people are willingly ignorant of the fact that the heavens and earth of old were destroyed by water.
The Bible answers this question in 2 Peter 3:4-6, where it says: '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: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.' Scripture therefore describes a distinct, worldwide watery judgment in the days of Noah and identifies rejection of it as willful ignorance.
Les Feldick teaches that the scientific community and textbooks do not just overlook Noah's flood; they deliberately reject it. He says a geology professor will scoff and laugh at the idea because Noah's flood cannot fit into millions of years. He also says he does not believe you will ever find a college science textbook that makes any reference to Noah's flood—they totally reject it and ignore it. Les links this rejection to 2 Peter 3:5, where scoffers are described as willingly ignorant: they have no desire to learn and do not want to know the truth.
2 Peter 3:4-6 says that in the last days scoffers will say that all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. Verse 5 says, 'For this they willingly are ignorant of'—meaning they are voluntary in their ignorance and do not want to accept that the heavens and earth of old were destroyed by water.
Les says scientists reject Noah's flood because it cannot be reconciled with millions of years. He says they will not accept it because a flood only thousands of years ago 'blows their millions of years out of the water.' Les also points out that no college textbook on any of the sciences ever references Noah's flood, and geology professors will scoff or laugh at the idea.
According to Les, the flood was cataclysmic—not a quiet rainfall—so it removed almost all evidence of pre-flood civilization except the fossil record. He says the present mountain ranges came up as a result of the flood. He also points to a worldwide layer of loess from volcanic action that can only logically come from the flood, and he says carbon-14 dating cannot be accurate through the flood because continuous circumstances were interrupted.
The Bible's 'Willingly Ignorant'
Les shows that the scoffer's phrase 'all things continue as they were' is exactly why the flood is ignored; to be willingly ignorant means having no desire to learn or accept the truth.
Scientists Reject the Flood
Les says geology professors scoff at Noah's flood because a historical flood thousands of years ago destroys the millions-of-years timeline, and no college science textbook mentions the flood.
The Flood's Destructive Power
Les stresses the flood was cataclysmic and tumultuous, not a gentle rising of rainwater, and it removed almost all evidence of the pre-flood world except the fossil record.
A New Earth After the Flood
Les teaches that today's mountains, rivers, plains, streams, and population all began after Noah's flood, with present mountain ranges coming up as a result of it.
Carbon-14 Interrupted
Les explains that carbon-14 dating cannot be accurate through the flood because it assumes continuous circumstances that were interrupted by volcanic activity and the watery catastrophe.
The Biblical Timeline of the Flood
Les places the flood around 2400 B.C., about 1,600 years after Adam, when violence and moral decline brought God's judgment.
Memory of the Pre-Flood World
Les says Noah and his sons were grown and remembered everything from before the flood, which shows the survivors carried pre-catastrophe knowledge into the new world.
Worldwide Loess Evidence
Les says most archaeologists scoff at the flood, but a worldwide soil product called loess, which comes from volcanic action, arguably has no logical source other than Noah's flood.
2 Peter 3:4: 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.
This verse records the scoffer's argument that nothing has changed since the beginning, which Les connects to the modern rejection of the flood.
2 Peter 3:5: 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:
This is the central verse Les Feldick points to when explaining that those who reject the flood are deliberately ignorant of God's past judgment.
2 Peter 3:6: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
This verse confirms that the pre-flood world was destroyed by the floodwaters, a fact scoffers refuse to accept.
Les Feldick says scientists are willingly ignorant of it. They will not accept a historical flood because it destroys the millions-of-years timeline, and they have no desire to learn the truth.
Les says he doesn't think you will ever find a college science textbook that makes any reference to Noah's flood. According to him, they totally reject it and ignore it.
It means they have no desire to learn. If they heard the truth about the flood, they would say they don't believe it and don't want to be told. Their ignorance is deliberate.
Yes. Les teaches that the present mountain ranges came up as a result of the flood, and that the earth we know today began on this side of Noah's flood.
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