Creation and the Last Days

For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.

Scoffers ridicule the biblical account of Noah’s Ark and a global Flood. They say that evolution is true and that all things continue as they have from the beginning (2 Peter 3:4–6). But the Bible reveals something far different ... and indicates that we now live in the last days. What's the connection between Creation and the description of the last days found in 2 Peter? Why is it so crucial to have a solid understanding of both the beginning and the coming end of time as we know it?