2 Peter 3:5

"Escapes their notice" in the Greek means forgets purposely by disregarding information. Peter cited two events in the creation of the cosmos that show things have not always been as they are. God did intervene in the world in the past. When God spoke, the universe came into existence (Genesis 1:6-8; cf. Hebrews 11:3). God spoke again and the dry land separated from ("out of") the waters (Genesis 1:9-10). Thus God used water to form the dry land. God brought the whole universe into existence by His word and by water. Peter proceeded to say that He also used both means to destroy it (in Noah’s day, 2 Peter 3:6), and He will use two means to destroy it in the future, His word and fire (2 Peter 3:7).

"St. Peter says nothing that a simple Jew could not have gathered from his own reading of Genesis." [Note: Bigg, p. 293.]