many trees and grasslands hurt by the flood......
Hurt by an hundred and fifty days of submergence in muddy salt water? Isn't "hurt" understating things here a bit? And isn't it
your book that says, "And
every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
It would not be hard to believe that dinosaurs once lived with man.
It would be pretty damn difficult to believe if you took the briefest of peeks at the evidence.
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken