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So on the topic of the age of the earth, I'll use my man Dawkin's reasoning: Creationists estimate the earth's age to be 6000 years. Scientists estimate the earth's age to be 4.6 billion years. If the scientists are correct, as several radiometric dating methods would suggest, the creationists' estimate is off by a factor of a million. This "is equivalent to believing that the distance from New York to San Francisco is 7.6 yards." (Dawkins)

On the question of the survival of flying and swimming species (and mammals): There is obviously no definitive explanation of how some creatures survived when the asteroid that is proposed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck. One plausible explanation is that the creatures that survived were those that were able to burrow into the ground or immerse themselves in water when the environment turned extremely hot for hours after the strike.