The Earth was a wicked thing. This isn’t a description of its ontological nature. It was clearly created good. Yet it was a description of its ontological reality. Something had shifted since entered it. The sin that entered the world had left man exposed to angelic influence and also separated from each other. Sons of God, or fallen angels now fully began to engage women in a sexual debauchery that led to incredible and legendary figures. These people became the stories that we tell each other across all cultures. They were the demigods of old and they continued to corrupt the minds of men away from God. The meaning of this cannot be overstated. It is man and women further separated and the human race pushed toward idolatry. This initiated the first culling. God determined an age upon humans to limit their capacity for wickedness. But it still grew into the need for a second culling. This resulted in the flood. It is notable that those who were born innocent at the time of Noah’s coming judgment, had almost the entirety of their lives until judgment would’ve come. This illustrates the pervasiveness of evil. Even today, it is clear that the flood reset humanity, but it did not purge it. Man is still wicked, he just can’t grow old enough to be worthy of a second flood. The divide between men and women still grows, with men focusing on the immediacy of their situation while valuing the angelic exploits of the heroism old and valuing sex and money and game, and women trending toward the mystical and spiritual.