Christian Biologists: How can plants survive 30 days under water...?

Question

during the Great Flood? (link please)

my tulips die after a rainstorm, let alone 40 days and 40 nights of terrential rain

Answer 1

Pssst.

Over here.

I'm a biologist..but not a Christian.

Plants survive longer times than that underwater all the time. Whether spending the entire winter under snow or surviving the floods associated with Katrina, most plants can live underwater for quite some time, as long as the water's not terribly salty.

Now, if you want to try to catch the Christians in a game like this, ask them about fish.

You see, most fish they are at least partially hydrostatic, that is, their shape comes from inside water. Since fish skins are semi-permeable membranes, when you take a salt water fish and put him in fresh water, the fresh water rushes out of the fish and his skin explodes....it's really quite disgusting.
If you take a freshwater fish and place him into salt water, the opposite happens, his skin implodes. ALSO disgusting.

Now, there are fish that don't have this problem, salmon, guppies, mollies, most catfish, eels and the rest....

SO, either all the fish died in the flood when a massive mixing of the waters occured, or all the fish that existed at that time were like salmon et al, and have since EVOLVED to not tolerate changes in salinity.

Just saying.

Answer 2

It was more than 30 days. 30 days of rain and 140 days of flood. The plants could not possibly have survived. The water would have reached a certain point where an average saline concentration resulted sue to the mixing of fresh and salt water. This would have killed plant life. Also tidal movement would have reulted in mass movements of soild and any resulting seeds would have been buried under several meters of soil which meant they couldn't have sprouted after the flood.

Answer 3

properly, no longer stated interior the bible, exchange into the classic Svalbard doomsday seed vault. Noah replanted each and every thing! Yep, Noah replanted finished rainforests in a land that doesn't be 'stumbled on' for a some years.

Answer 4

deztructshun covered that so well, I think I'm just gonna suffice to say-

they didn't. Noah's ark is almost as funny as the Genesis story.

I'm lovin' it.

Answer 5

It's was magic. Special god magic that we can't begin to comprehend. That should satisfy your curiosity.

Primoa that is a non explanation because you can not possibly know HOW god does things. We want the HOW of it not just I don't know god just did it. Can you see how that explains nothing?

Answer 6

I'm not a biologist but I can tell you this:

My God is capable of doing anything......including regenerating His creation.

The flood was meant to destroy everything...........and the Lord made it all new after that.

There's no mention of plants "surviving" in the Genesis account.