We'll just have to disagree then...
Romans 8 has another lesson linked to the ruined state of the earth at Gen.1:2.
Rom 8:18-25
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Paul was speaking of the world to come with that. The Greek word for "creature" there is the same word translated to "creation" further down. So Paul is speaking of God's creation here. The creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God, which Paul is pointing to the future world to come with that time of manifesting.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope,
The creation was "made subject to vanity", when was that?
Did God do that with the of flood of Noah's day? That is the only major event of destruction upon the whole earth clearly written of prior to today, and Paul was speaking about the creation existing in a state of vanity in the present now tense. Yet we are not shown any real earth changes between the time of Adam and after Noah, except men and animals being wiped off the surface of the earth. God didn't tell Noah to collect two of every tree and plant, which shows He didn't destroy those things off the earth with Noah's flood.
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
God placed His creation into "the bondage of corruption" for this present world, as it like us seeks the coming redemption in Christ Jesus. That is why today's state of creation is imperfect; everything dies, the majority of the earth is uninhabitable because of waters overspread upon it, and even much of the existing land is uninhabitable because deserts, steep canyons, subzero zones, etc.
A deeper study in God's Word on these things reveals how His creation of today is not... how He originally made His creation. At the end of Revelation we are told there will be no more death. Apply that concept to His creation, and it reveals a glory that is practically unimaginable compared to today's bondage state of the creation.
Isaiah gives us examples of carnivorous animals that will become herbivores in that future new heavens and a new earth.
Revelation says there will be no more sea, so where's all the waters of the oceans going to go? That involves a major link to the events of Gen.1:2-9 about the waters of a flood overspread upon an already existing earth...
Science knows there are tropical animal and plant fossil remains at both the north and south poles. In New Mexico there exists the putrefied forest, which is actually a group of fossilized palm tree trunks. Even of late, the geologist Robert M. Schoch has proven the Giza plateau in Egypt was once like a tropical rain forest, and not a desert at all. I also have to mention the woolly mammoths found frozen in the ice in the Arctic still with plant vegetation in their mouths, and undigested in their stomachs, showing they were caught in an open field grazing when a sudden flood of waters fell upon them at the same time of an instant freeze (that has been, and still is, very puzzling to scientists).
Science says the earth's plates shifting and various ice ages have produced that above fossil evidence. I say it is evidence of the original perfect creation God created at Genesis 1:1, which suggests the original creation involved a fully closed canopy atmosphere around the earth producing an even climate like in a greenhouse, thus how tropical plant and animals could exist at both poles, and in areas like New Mexico, etc., as a good majority of dinosaur fossils in the U.S. are found in the western regions. In the world to come, I believe that is what God is going to put back, moving the waters of today's oceans and seas back up... into the sky's atmosphere, plugging all the holes in it to re-create the original canopy cover around the earth He made at His original perfect creation.
It's especially the holes in our cloud atmosphere that causes today's violent weather on earth, heating up the air near the earth's surface which rises to mix with cold air up high, stirring up storms, waters evaporating and rising to fill the clouds, etc. I see that having ended with the world to come. The 'no more sea' idea in Revelation links to that.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Just as we await the coming redemption by our Lord Jesus, the creation also groans and travaileth in pain waiting for deliverance from the bondage God put it in for this world.