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Death passed upon all men only and not animals any other part of the created world. When God told Adam that the very day should he eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he would surely die . The result of Adam's sin is the corruption of the entire world/planet. This corruption is the RESULT not a subset of Adam's transgression; aka: cause and effect.

1. The word [kosmos] has 7 different meanings in Scripture. In John 3:16 "world" [kosmos] it's meaning cannot mean anything but all whom God had set His determination (election) to save throughout the entire world; Jews and Gentiles, i.e. the elect. I'll repeat here which I have provided myriad times here and elsewhere. A literal translation of John 3:16 according to the Greek is: For in this manner God loved His own whom He set His affection from all eternity in the sending of His Son so that the believing ones (the elect) would not perish but have eternal life. For a thorough examination and exegesis of John 3:16 see the following:
The 'World' of John 3:16 Does Not Mean 'All Men Without Exception'
An Exposition of John 3:16

2. The penalty of "death" promised by God Adam as a consequence of disobedience was 3-fold; spiritual, physical, and eternal. The 'spiritual' occurred immediately, the 'physical' death occurred over a period of time and the 'eternal' was future and the finality of the punishment due to those outside of Christ. That being true, it is also true that the entire created order suffered residually at the Fall of man where ALL of the living creation experienced physical death in common with man. This cataclysmic event is this evident to all mankind as a reminder that something horrible had occurred in which they are also affected and guilty before God.