Re: Both YEC and OEC can exist only through willful ignorance.
God of course considers those who deny the Flood to be the willfully ignorant:
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: