Yes — the flood was so cataclysmic and instantaneous that it all but totally removed every trace of the pre-flood world, leaving only the fossil record and related deposits.
Les Feldick teaches that Noah's flood was not a quiet rising of rainwater but a tumultuous, cataclysmic event in which the whole planet erupted instantaneously. As a result, all the evidence of the pre-flood civilization has been all but totally removed from the scene. What remains is mainly the fossil record, along with worldwide deposits of loess from volcanic action and other flood-related accumulations such as dead fish deposits. Les also notes that scientists and textbooks generally reject the flood, so they do not look for or acknowledge this evidence.
Genesis 7:19-23 — Describes the waters covering every high hill and destroying every living substance, leaving only Noah and those with him in the ark — the biblical basis for why no trace of pre-flood civilization survived.
2 Peter 3:5-6 — States that the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished, and describes those who deny it as willingly ignorant.
The Bible presents the flood as a worldwide catastrophe that destroyed the entire pre-flood order. Genesis 7:19-20 says the waters prevailed so exceedingly that all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered, and the mountains were covered. Genesis 7:21-23 records that all flesh died — fowl, cattle, beasts, every creeping thing, and every man — and that every living substance upon the face of the ground was destroyed; only Noah and those with him in the ark remained alive. The New Testament confirms this. In 2 Peter 3:5-6, the apostle writes that the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. The passage also says that those who deny this are willingly ignorant of the creation and the flood. Scripture therefore indicates that the pre-flood civilization was not merely damaged but completely perished in a global watery catastrophe, and it does not describe any artifacts or structures of that world surviving.
Les Feldick explains that the reason so little evidence of pre-flood civilization remains is not that it never existed, but that the flood was far more violent than a simple rainstorm. He pictures the surface of the earth in Noah's flood as complete turmoil, like clothes tumbling in an old washing machine, and says the whole planet erupted instantaneously to such a degree that all of the evidence of the pre-flood civilization has been all but totally removed from the scene. Les points out that the pre-flood world was populated and advanced. He says that in the roughly 1,650 years from Adam to the flood there were probably as many people as on the planet today, possibly more, and that the technology and lifestyle of the pre-flood people was equal to or surpassed where we are tonight. For physical remains, Les cites the fossil record as the main surviving evidence, along with the soil product called loess, which he says comes strictly from volcanic action and is found everywhere on earth, including the ocean bottoms. He also mentions humongous areas of accumulated dead fish that can have no other explanation but that they died in Noah's flood, which a few biblical geologists credit for our oil pools.
Les points to several surviving physical markers. A soil product called loess is found in every place on this planet, even on the oceans, and Les says it comes strictly from volcanic action — a product of the volcanic upheaval of the flood. Archaeologists have also found humongous areas of accumulated dead fish that Les says can have no other explanation but death in Noah's flood, and a few biblical geologists credit crude oil pools to these great accumulations of fish. Above all, the fossil record is the only substantial remaining evidence, since everything else of the pre-flood civilization has been completely removed from the scene.
Les says the intellectual community will not accept that this world at one time was totally demolished and destroyed and renovated by Noah's flood. He challenges anyone to find a single college or high school textbook — in literature, history, or the sciences — that maintains the fact of Noah's flood; textbooks ignore it or deny it. Les says scientists for the most part reject the fact of the flood and are willingly ignorant of it — the very language Scripture uses in 2 Peter 3:5 to describe those who ignore the flood.
Les teaches that the pre-flood population was enormous — probably as many people as today, possibly more — and that their technology equaled or surpassed our present level. He references a book called We're Not the First as evidence of that advanced technology. Yet in that 1,650-year span from Adam to the flood there was no civil government, no organized worship, and no religion as far as Scripture shows.
The Cataclysmic Flood and the Loess Evidence
Les describes Noah's flood as complete turmoil resembling a washing machine, and he cites the soil product loess — found everywhere on earth, including the oceans — as archaeological proof resulting from the flood's volcanic action.
Evidence of the Pre-Flood Civilization Removed
Les explains that the flood was not a quiet rising of rainwater but a cataclysmic eruption of the whole planet that all but totally removed the evidence of the pre-flood civilization; only the fossil record remains.
Pre-Flood Technology Equaled or Surpassed Ours
Les teaches that the technology and lifestyle of the pre-flood people equaled or surpassed ours today, recommending the book We're Not the First as supporting evidence.
Textbooks Never Maintain the Flood
Les notes that school and college textbooks never admit to a time when the world was utterly destroyed by the flood, even though the flood is found in the legends of every major culture.
Dead Fish and Oil Pools as Flood Evidence
Les points to humongous areas of accumulated dead fish that can only be explained by the flood, with some biblical geologists attributing crude oil pools to those accumulations.
Scientists Are Willingly Ignorant
Les says scientists reject the flood and are willingly ignorant of it, even though the flood is preserved in the culture of the Incas, Polynesians, Babylonians, and other major civilizations.
Intellectual Community Denies the Flood
Les observes that the intellectual community refuses to accept that this world was demolished by Noah's flood, and no college or high school textbook maintains the fact of it.
Population at the Time of the Flood
Les estimates that the 1,650 years from Adam to the flood produced a population as large as today's — possibly more — and that this world had tremendous technology but no civil government or organized worship.
Genesis 7:19-20: And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
This describes the global scale of the flood, covering every high hill and mountain — explaining why no trace of pre-flood civilization could survive.
Genesis 7:21-23: And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Scripture says every human being and every living substance on the dry land died, leaving only Noah and those in the ark.
2 Peter 3:5-6: 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:
This confirms that the pre-flood world perished in the flood and describes those who ignore that fact as willingly ignorant — a point Les echoes.
Les teaches that the flood was not a quiet rising of rainwater but a cataclysmic event in which the whole planet erupted instantaneously. All the evidence of the pre-flood civilization was all but totally removed, leaving mainly the fossil record, the soil product loess, and deposits like accumulated dead fish.
The fossil record is the main surviving evidence. Les also cites loess, a volcanic soil product found everywhere on earth, including the oceans, and humongous areas of accumulated dead fish that can have no other explanation but death in Noah's flood.
Scripture says the waters covered all the high hills, all flesh died, and every living substance on the face of the ground was destroyed; only Noah and those with him in the ark remained alive (Genesis 7:19-23). Les adds that scientists who deny this are willingly ignorant, the same description Peter uses in 2 Peter 3:5-6.
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