And like I said, it does not refute the Bible if one does not interpret it literally. There are quite a few Christians that insist that it was a historical fact. That all of the Earth was flooded. In fact they appear to think that refuting the flood myth is "refuting God". It is of course only a refutation of their personal version of God.
Another myth or misinterpretation is, I believe the creation story.
Science has proved beyond any doubt that the world is about 4.5 billion years old.
So how can the 7 days of creation be interpreted to make sense and be perfectly logical and reasonable?
The Bible is not a scientific journal but a ‘Divine’ Book about spiritual matters and occurrences. So could not the seven days be referring to Divine Days? In the Bible it states that a Day of God is as a thousand of our years. So that would mean seven thousand years.
What then did God create in seven thousand years if it wasn’t the physical world?
Just as the physical world has its sun so too does the spiritual world has its own Sun also.
But this Sun gives spiritual light and truth. One example of a Sun of Truth is Moses, another Jesus. So if we examine just how many Suns of Truth there have been since Adam we will likely find there have been about seven. Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, the Bab and Baha’u’llah.
So we we have perhaps an explanation in the creation story of a ‘Divine nature’, of how the entire history of religion up until the present day could have been foretold in a few short passages.
So the story of creation I believe is not about the physical world, but about the creation of the Adamic Cycle and the Seven Days of God or Revelations that have appeared.