one modern jewish take this article is taking an allegory too far most rabbis acknowledge the epic of giglamesh as the original source material and value the science that says a global flood is pure bunk has the fact that a global flood would kill all the fish in the oceans i am sad that this is singled out as the article of the day people need to understand that for centuries noah's ark has been used as an obvious attack on science today it is religious fundamentalists' favorite method of attack upon evolution sparky