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Erm, I'm sorry but I have, I guess it's my fault for knowning too may folk who argue the earth is only 6000 years old, but my auntie is member of the west free presbytarians and they all think it was 6000 years ago.
As for the plants, it's not the lack of plants, but the lack of snow, we badly ever get any snow, the last time we had proper snow that lasted a few days was 1997 if I memo right, cue I had a go-kart for Christmas that year but couldn't go out on it cue of snow, but that's about the high of it.
You in no way addressed how the pants would have survived no light, being crushed for a month and a half.
You seem to now have droped the whole animals apearing in different contries after I gave a reasonable explination. And made no attempt to defend your own idea of animals making their way across thousands of miles of barron ice-land.
As for the water/atmosphere, it was argueed that there was a build up of water vapour in the atmosphere, that protected those living before the flood from UV light, and was the water that was used for the flood, but after the flood it, er, vanished?