@Setanta,
My feelings toward your beliefs are 'ditto'!
You believe that bones can last for 65 million years at or near the surface in such environments as has been found?
You believe that coal can pile itself into mountains over millions of years?
You believe a deep crease in a tectonic plate can be caused by the pressure of an ice sheet?
You believe it takes millions of years for wood to petrify?
You believe that uranium decays at the same rate in every environment?
You believe that Pangaea broke up by convection alone?
You believe a mountain range can be mainly coal then a deep embayment and then a mountain range that is limestone?
You believe that the Mayans dove beneath water to carve temples and went deep in caves to build pyramids?
You believe that so many cities were just covered up when their inhabitants grew tired of them?
These are just the start to all of your delusions. Please review, study and learn the truth.
The Tuatara did not survive for more than 65 million years as the only dinosaur. It survived this impact 12,900 years ago because New Zealand was the furthest away from where the impact occurred and still near enough to the equator.
There can be no large animals presently because the surface plates and mantle are moving too slowly in comparison to the crystalized iron inner core.
This Lunar impact to the Mediterranean is the reason for our lost history and the loss of such diversity of life that existed during the late Pleistocene. You see, the Moon was the main reason for the climate change, as it eclipsed the Sun over most of the planet. As the path of totality covered the equator it cooled the planet. as the Moon came in to closer and closer orbit, the Pangaea plate would rise and compress due to electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, causing massive volcanic activity, tectonic seismic motions, breaking up the plate and as the Moon finally came in from low orbit, it took a skip at the Black sea and impacted the Mediterranean...
[oh yea] P.S. You may want to watch the 'names', as when you find the truth you will be the one being 'named'! ;-]
Every tectonic plate interaction, with the exception of the African plate filling in the crater, emanates out from this central location at the Mediterranean Sea. This is why it was named the middle of the earth.:-]