[rwfromkansas]

I guess Gilgamish is fiction, too.

[Dog Gone]

Neither Gilgamesh nor Noah are fiction. What they are is legend passed down years through oral history before they were eventually captured in written form.

Those that demand that the Genesis story is word for word literal will accept nothing else, but there is a lot of reason to think the flood story is based on the sudden and catastrophic breach of the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosporus and into the Black Sea, virtually wiping out the cradle of civilization along its shores.