[[Thank you for confirming my original statement: that nowhere is God described as having created fungi.]]
Which is a victory for you how?
I didn;’t misunderstand your point- many islands that cropped up from salt water have diverse flora on them which could only have been accomplished through drifting pods and sprouts surviving salt water- The link I gave you explains this and many other ways in which flora could survive. As well- we do not know the salt content of early oceans. If the bible is true, (just for the sake of aegument, let’s assume that we don’t know it is, but will assume that it is) then it woudl be reasonable that the deeps opening up would produce more salt i nthe seas because of valcanic eruptions underwater mineralizing hte seas. As well there woudl be varying degrees of brackishness- not simply water in which nothign that depends on freshwater could survvive.
As well, if some can, and KINDS create subspecies, then thsoe that did survive, can accouint for the diversities we have today- As well, Noah took seed and grain o nthe ark for the animals- many varieties.
This really is a moot point- obviously with the amount of debri in the water, much could survive on floating mats, in barks etc, and obviously enough did survive to create the many subspecies we have today. I guess you would have a point IF you could show that everythign outside of the ark could not have survvived, but that isn’t ther case.
One more time: the flora of islands is quite limited. Island populations are no argument for general plant survival of a universal flood.
A drowned Arizona area cactus, not in fruit (and they are seasonal, if one is not in fruit, neither are the others), had zero chance of surviving a flood. Ditto a forest fern, a mountain top eidelweiss, a rainforest epiphyte.