[spunkets]

"Gen 2:6 - but a mist came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. This was how the plants were watered prior to the flood. "

Mie scatteringEvidently you've never spent time in the wilderness where mists abound. Do you suppose God kept the mists from being illuminated why anyone was around? Did he place them in a deep sleep while the mist was watering the things? Perhaps He kept the particle size small enough that no rainbow resulted. What's with the DOD?

It rained and there where even thunderstorms prior to the flood and there's no reason to believe otherwise. The Earth is also billions of years old, not 6K y/o.

[JohnnyM]

"Evidently you've never spent time in the wilderness where mists abound."

Genesis 9
12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14 It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."

Three times God mentions a bow in the clouds. That is distinctly different than something happening in a mist close to the ground.

As to the DOD thing, are you referring to the Garden of Eden and the Angel that was gaurding it? I would imagine that it was destroyed in the Flood. There is no need to guard the entrance to Eden if it no longer exists.

JM