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Richard Ritenbaugh, focusing upon the tendency of our culture to be self-absorbed and self-glorifying, having erroneously absorbed the Darwinian concept of evolution, warns that civilization is clearly not progressing, but degenerating. The long life-spans, characteristic of Methuselah's time, have given away to a mere three score and ten. Technological and scientific progress, accumulated experience, does not make our quantity and quality of life better off than before the Flood. Between creation and the Flood was a span of 1658 years, a time of intense scientific ferment, producing immense artistic, philosophical, agricultural, industrial, and technological progress. In the Olivet Prophecy, Jesus affirms that conditions at the end time will be parallel to the conditions at the time of Noah, at the conclusion of the Pre-Flood times. Scientists today naively assume a kind of evolutionary uniformitarianism (what we see in the present has always been and serves as a key to the past), as opposed to the biblical emphasis on catastrophism (a belief that earth's history has occasionally been punctuated by catastrophe or upheaval). Like the days of Noah, the end-times will be characterized by carnality, gluttony, promiscuity, and perversion. During the pre-Flood times, Satan had attempted to corrupt the offspring of Eve, probably through massive demonic possession, succeeding except for Noah and his family. The same demonic threat will occur at the end-time.

Adam Agriculture Angels Anti-evolutionary Archer Daniels Midland Bene Elohim Business as usual Cain Catastrophism Civilization Creation Curse on the serpent Day of the Lord Days of Noah Degeneration Demon possession Dew Egypt Einstein Euphrates Evolution Feasting Flood Gluttony God's wrath Heightened demonic activity Heroes History Hypercanes Intermarriage of Seth's sons and Cain's daughters Jabal Jubal Judgment Marriage Metallurgy Methuselah Mining Mist Natural disaster Nephilim Nimrod Noah Olivet prophecy Parable of the Fig Tree Polygamous marriages Pre-Flood civilization Progress Progressive Proud Promiscuity Reveling Scoffers Self-glorification Self-obsession Seth's descendants Sons of Belial Sons of God and daughters of men Sumerian civilization Tares among the wheat Technological advance Tigris Times of Noah Trogo Tubal Cain Unexpectedness Uniformitarianism Worldwide deluge

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