Land life's only "life-line" (pun not intended) was the Ark.
But the Ark isn't big enough to support as much life as the bible says, plus food, plus drinkable water, plus a compliment of human caretakers. Even juveniles. And two of every population is far too few to resuccitate an entire population, even if they're God's own "perfect" specimens.
I mean, let's say you just let the animals off the ark. You've got two antelopes and two lions. What are the lions going to eat? An antelope? If your population of antelopes consists of only one mated pair, and then one of them is killed, guess what happens to your antelopes?
So the Ark story doesn't hold water (or keep it out, as the case may be.)
I think humans would have gone to higher ground if possible, think, think, think, yes they would have been able to go higher in most cases.
Here's another one - why didn't they get into boats and survive like Noah?
I would suspect the grasses to be obliterated rapidly.
I think you misunderstand our objections. Plants have as much of an evolutionary history as animals, with primitive ferns towards the beginning and more modern angiosperms much, much later. (At least, that's the evolutionary interpretation of the plant fossil record.)
But we
never find modern grass with dinosaurs. Never ever. And look outside - grasses do pretty well. There's grass all over the place. So, if the reason "primitive" animals are at the bottom of the geologic record is because they can't outrun the rising flood waters, then surely modern angiosperms should be all the way at the bottom? Plants can't outrun anything. But what we find is that angiosperms are largely at the top of the fossil record - well above dinosaurs. How did they get there, except by an explanation that modern angiosperms evolved later than dionsaurs - and the geologic column represents a record of millions of years?
Enough with the Sarcastic remarks, they are pointless.
No, they're quite point-ful. You're just missing the point. The question isn't "did the flood kill plants?" but rather "if the flood killed everything at once, why aren't all types of plants distributed evenly throughout the fossil record? Why do more advanced plants appear
solely at the top of the geologic column?