What point is Peter making by reference to the Flood story here?
See 2 Peter 2:5. What is fascinating among Peter’s words is his statement that the scoffers will say that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (2 Pet. 3:4). These verses point to a dramatic fulfillment of prophecy that has been especially revealed in the past century and a half. Science has proposed a geological interpretation that favors long ages, rather than a sudden catastrophe like the Flood, to account for the surface condition of the earth. In other words, things just keep on as they have before; many of the massive canyons and rock formations didn’t come, we are told, by some sudden catastrophe but simply were the result of things continuing as they were from the beginning of creation; they’re there only from a long uniform progression of events. This idea also is the basis of evolution, a steady process of things slowly evolving as they did from the beginning of time, rather than a sudden literal six-day creation of life on the earth, as the Bi
