It is easy to see this "willing ignorance" in action when watching debates over the creation/evolution issue. In most cases, the evolutionists are not interested in the wealth of data, evidence, and information the creationists put forward. They usually try to attack creationists by attempting to destroy their credibility. They are not interested in data, logical reasoning, or any evidence that points to creation or refutes evolution, because they are totally committed to their religious faith called evolution.

Modern geology today tells us that there never was a worldwide flood as described in the Bible. We are told that millions of years of geological processes can explain the enormous fossil record in the sedimentary rock layers around the earths surface. However, creationists have shown that the fossil-bearing rock layers were produced by enormous catastrophic processes consistent with Noahs flood.1 But evolutionists refuse to accept this, for to do so would mean that the Bible is right, and thus the whole of their evolutionary philosophy would have to be rejected. These people are "willingly ignorant" about the facts that do not support their evolutionary ideas but do fit into a model of geology based upon what the Bible says concerning Noahs flood. This is another fulfillment of prophecy before our very eyes.

Much of the scientific literature also tells us that most scientists expect this world to go on and on for millions of years. The example of the desert museum in Tucson, Arizona, is again appropriate. As mentioned before, one display at this museum is supposed to represent what scientists believe will happen in Arizona over the next few millions of years or so. People often look at that display and ask the question: "How can they know what is going to happen millions of years into the future?" The answer is: "In exactly the same way they understand what has happened millions of years in the past!" They do not know it is only their guess. If scientists agreed that God had created, that Noahs flood was a real event, and that, therefore, the Bible was true, they would have to tell quite a different story. Since Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:37–39 uses the event of Noahs flood as a warning that God has judged the earth, and will judge it again, they would have to agree that God is going to come back as judge. The next time He will use fire as the method of judgment rather than water. Sinful man in rebellion against God does not want to admit that he must stand before the God of creation one day and account for his life. Thus, in rejecting creation and Noahs flood, and claiming "scientific" evidence that supposedly supports his own belief, he becomes comfortable in not thinking about the coming judgment. But, just as God created the world by His Word and sent the flood through His Word, so God will judge this world by fire.

CONCLUSION