How is it far fetched when we read that the actual mass extinction of all humanoids did actually occur with a "flood" of Modern Homo sapiens that covered the whole earth, as they rained down upon the earth to the highest mountain tops during a 40 thousands year period of time?
Did Noah's ark float on people? Best. Crowd-surfing. Ever!
It seems a pretty cleverly couched analogy or even literal report on paleontology, set down in a day befoe anyone, antwhere, ever would have been able to even entertain a more direct corrspondence with the scientific facts we now can hardly believe.
Have you ever actually read the story? It really was talking about a shit-ton of water. There was a bird with an olive branch, they ended up finding land. You know, the story of Noah's Ark?
It was based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. They had a flood story too. It was about water, not crowd-surfing.