[HeadOn]

40 days underwater wouldn't remove all vegetation. As a matter of fact, if you look at God's reason for the flood (to eliminate evil men), it's clear He did not intend to destroy the trees, etc.

[Physicist]

As a matter of fact, if you look at God's reason for the flood (to eliminate evil men),

...to say nothing of their evil infants and children...

[OldDominion]

40 days underwater wouldn't remove all vegetation. As a matter of fact, if you look at God's reason for the flood (to eliminate evil men), it's clear He did not intend to destroy the trees, etc

According to the Bible, the Flood covered the entire earth for about a year. Any flood of that magnitude would indeed strip all vegetation from the earth. That amount of vegetation under the pressure of so much water and earth churn is likely where the present day off-shore coal deposits came from.

[Junior]

The flood lasted a year. The rain lasted 40 days and 40 nights. The olive branch part of the story is specifically there to show the flood was not universal.

[Non-Sequitur]

40 days underwater wouldn't remove all vegetation.

Fourty days under salt water would. Besides, read your Bible. It was closer to a year.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

if you look at God's reason for the flood (to eliminate evil men)

No, it was not. Reread Genesis again. The reason was to eliminate the offspring of the Nephilim (fallen angels) and the daughters of Adam. Among Adams' descendants, only Noah & family did not intermix.