Do you believe there was a world wide flood with Noah? 2 Peter 3 is about the flood of Noah. They all say the flood of Noah is impossible. With any evolution model they come up with they wilfully ignore Noah's flood and say it happened different. Layers were formed in billions of years instead of 1 year. Noone wilfully ignores the flood of satan. Most haven't even heard of it. GAP theory came somewhere in the 1800s.
You have several run-on thoughts there. What Peter was talking about has nothing to do with man's theory of evolution. And by your 'attempt' to bring the idea of 'evolution' into this, that actually is a far out suggestion that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. So you need to try and again, and stay in God's Word if you want to learn what I'm talking about.
From 1814,
[4] Thomas Chalmers popularized gap creationism;
[5] he attributed the concept to the 17th-century Dutch
Arminian theologian
Simon Episcopius. Chalmers wrote:
So GAP theory just came because of Geology and they couldn't believe that it happened so fast.
That of course is false, and probably an idea planted by scientists that support... evolution theory.
It's the science types that support the false interpretation that Genesis 1:2 Hebrew
tohu va bohu means the earth wasn't there yet and was at some nothingness gaseous state.
Those who follow their false interpretation of Genesis 1:2 are those Peter was talking about that are "willingly ignorant" of that old world which God destroyed because of Satan's rebellion in coveting God's throne!
So it's actually funny about those ignorant types (like yourself) who refuse to understand this because they leave no room at all for the time when Satan was PERFECT IN HIS WAYS (per Ezekiel 28). By the time Satan was in God's Garden tempting Eve, he had already rebelled and was working against God. So that means at some period PRIOR to Adam and Eve was when Satan followed God and was perfect. Per your view there's no room for that, because the creation was just prior to Adam and Eve.
What Peter was pointing to was not the flood of Noah's day, and here is why...
2 Peter 3:5-6
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:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
KJV
"by the word of God the heavens were of old" = God's original perfect creation at Genesis 1:1. That is when God spoke, and the original creation of the earth came to pass.
"and the earth standing out of the water and in the water" = the very state of the earth at Genesis 1:2 with flood waters covering the whole earth, in which in the Genesis 1:6-10 verses, the earth is literally standing in the water, and out of the water, by God moving those waters already upon the earth to form today's sky ("firmament") and cause the dry land to appear (re-appear). There is NO statement past Genesis 1:1 of creating the actual earth. This state at Genesis 1:2 was the result of His destruction of that old world, which the parallel to this is given in Jeremiah 4:23-28.
Now then, TRY again... to get around what Apostle Paul said about this in Romans 8:18-25 where he said God placed the CREATION in vanity, in bondage to corruption, by FALSELY INSERTING the fall of Adam and Eve like you tried to do so as to DISREGARD what Paul said there about the CREATION.
According to Peter, there are 3 earth world ages:
1. "the world that then was" = time when Satan was perfect in his ways, then rebelled.
2. "the heavens and the earth, which are now" = this 2nd earth world age that God re-established starting at Genesis 1:3 after He destroyed the first world when Satan rebelled.
3. "new heavens and a new earth" = the future world to come after Christ's future "thousand years" reign.