Well, that meteorite crashed here millions years ago (questionable, if it really did crash here), and man became to be 10s of thousands of years ago. so between is enought time for surviving creatures to evolve.

Contrary to the movies....people were not on earth when the dinosaurs roamed it....

Uhm... we hadn't come into being yet, love. It was a mass extinction, not a total eradication of life on the planet. Not everything died. We developed from what was left over.

As others have said, humans weren't anywhere close to arriving on the scene that long ago. Mammals were, however. Fortunately for them, most were quite small and lived in borrows or underground primarily to escape the huge reptile predators of their day. That more protected lifestyle allowed primarily mammals to survive what must have been akin to a nuclear winter generated by the massive asteroid hit. And thus began the age of the mammals.

Humans are only about a million years on the planet. You might be aware that sometime in the early 20th century there was an asteroid hit somewhere in Russia, and I believe the crater formed is still a "place of interest". Fortunately it happened to hit an area devoid of poupulation. In a more crowded city, the damamge would have been enormous, though localised.

It didn't kill off everything. Birds, crocodiles and others from the prehistoric ages are still with us.

Because back then humans...I'm sorry "cavemen" had special powers and mostly lived beneath the earth. When the meteor hit everything on the surface was terminated but the cavemen survived...since their societies were in caves. That and the magic they used was bar none better than the weak magic we have today.

Large creatures require more air and food than small creatures do. Therefore the larger(dinos) died off leaving room for the smaller(mammals) to take over.

As others have said, humans were not around yet. The mammals of the time, unlike the dinosaurs could regulate body temperature. The asteroid strike cause a massive dust cloud that reduced the amount of sunlight able to penetrate the atmosphere. The large cold blooded creatures were far more dependent on the sun to warm them than their smaller furry brethren, thus the dinos died and mammals thrived.

Recent studies have concluded the universe is approximately 13.5 billion years old. Our planet, Earth, was formed by gasses and debris slowly combining and forming a mass. With a molten core. After a while, again according to speculation and investigation, meteorites bombarded the planet bringing with them hydrogen and oxygen molecules which ultimately formed the earth's atmosphere. From these fragmentary beginnings life forms began to develop, first as molecules of life in the oceans, then moving onto the surface of the planet. The first large life forms were evolved from the amphibians and became what we now called dinosaurs. Somewhere around 60 plus million years ago a giant asteroid/meteorite struck the planet somewhere around the Yucatan peninsula, throwing debris into the atmosphere which, according to the best theories, apparently caused the death of most of the plant and animal life on the planet. Another evolutionary cycle began and mammals gradually became the large-life form on the surface. Somewhere around 2 to 2.5 million years ago, somewhere in Africa, humanoids began to develop. These pre-cursors to present-day humans gradually moved out of Africa into Europe and Asia, crossing the Bearing Strait perhaps as far back as 20,000 years ago and populating the Americas. Even though there are multiple differences in different types of humans today, it is noteworthy that we can all inter-breed, indicating that we all came from the same root stock. Around 50,000 years ago there seems to have been a significant spurt in the evolution of the human species and our measured evolution accelerated. I find nothing in the history of the evolution of mankind to dispute the concept of divine intervention in the creation of humans and there doesn't seem to be anything in the Bible that contradicts or is contradicted by these theories of evolution...so long as one is willing to understand the Bible as being an allegorical and symbolic account of human life (as opposed to a literal definition of what must have happened).

We didn't get born yet.

While I am not as learned as Sharon, not do I have the grand and lofty rank she holds, she is correct. Being reptiles and having a large calorie requirement the asteroid and the result dust storm reduced the light reaching the surface. The plants suffered a setback, and the reptile dinosaurs suffer from a niche vulnerability and could not forage or move because of the cold and starved. Not all life failed, not even most, carrion eaters would have thrived. Subsequent generations would have developed the ability to eat fresh meat and a form or predation was born. The development of mammals had to await the development of a warm blooded system and digestive track. Trial and failure eventually developed the capability to retain a fertilized egg with in the body and gender disphoria appeared. Mammals were on the way, and homo habilis came along in due course. Submitted Ed