How does the Bible reconcile dinosaurs and their long existence?

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For those who question the aftereffects and the survival of species following this event, they should use their mind's eye and imagine how the blast and fall-out would travel around the globe.

It's oft been said that the asteroid impacted at an angle which suggests it was traveling from the southern polar quadrant, impacting Mexico at a shallow angle which sent the majority of the blast northwards across North America, most likely wiping everything out as it went. The fall out would then have traveled up over the North Pole and down across Russia and Europe, likely only stalling as it reached the equator on the other side of the planet.

Southern Africa therefore was left virtually unscathed. This explains the survival of the larger species there: Elephant, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, whose early forebears perhaps barely survived the effects of the global climate change. It also explains why evidence of early man's development is seen mainly in post-apocalyptic south Africa, as smaller pygmy-like species of primate took advantage of the reduction in predators and so got a 'leg-up' on the evolutionary ladder. In many ways we have the asteroid apocalypse to thank for mankind's evolutionary success story!

In most other areas, only the smaller species would have survived... voles, mice, rats, insects, birds, lizards... and it's from these forebears that our modern animal species have evolved and explains the lack of large animal species across the Americas, Asia and Europe. The ocean creatures would have fared rather better and this explains the survival of large oceanic creatures like the whales, narwhals, sharks and, of course, the rich diversity of small oceanic life.

What's most fascination to consider is how many species were wiped out that we will never see any evidence of? Animals that existed in the central Americas whose remains were incinerated, never to be seen in nature again?

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