Are we to believe that Bible stories are mere variations of a more ancient tale? Is there another way to look at the Bible flood story? Rather than a very big boat needed to save a large number of animals and eight souls from extinction, think of Noah's Ark in metaphorical terms, as a closed biological system where male and female ("two unclean of every sort") are necessary for the survival of the species. And rather than thinking of the flood as a cataclysm involving H20, consider another scenario where the waters ("darkness with little light") are "a hot dense state" that expands and cools over time. Comparisons of the Bible and extra-Biblical writings to the original ancient Sumerian Cuneiform, The Epic of Gilgamesh, transport us to a time before time, pre-flood. Bible timelines are erased as chronology disappears into one continuous stream, Noah, Moses and others are clever variations of the same story. What may first appear as a discordant jumble of words turns out to be ordered, but extremely convoluted when seen from the perspective of the parallelism. How could human beings have orchestrated this kind of complexity?