Definitely seems more plausible than the biblical story.

Yes, I agree that myths are ways to try to explain the unexplainable, or to understand events in a metaphorical way, when the truth as we know it simply doesn't make sense to us without more knowledge of how or why things happened or are the way they are.

New scientific knowledge simply helps us to understand the real causes of various events, while legends and myths still hold some purpose or warning for moral or ethical behavior for the intended audience, the society of the place at that time in history.

Problem with a myth, legend or story when it becomes folded into a religion where people are taught these things literally happened, instead of taking them into mind in a literary or metaphorical sense, is that it becomes "blasphemous" to tell what we know to be the truth, or possible alternative scenarios, with new scientific evidence.

I found this very interesting. Similar events such as Noah's ark and the great flood may have been the over-topping of the Bosporus strait by the Mediterranean sea.
If this occurrence was happening now, it could be explained, but prior to the scientific method events such as these would usually be explained by what people knew. Leading to the replacement of old gods by newer stronger bigger ones.

We await the next one. Will it happen somewhere remote or densely populated? Will it kill friends or enemies?

Saw this on science program