The Two Flood Stories

     There could be many reasons of why Gilgamesh's flood story and the Bible's flood story is so similar.  I beleive the reason for the similarities is becuase there really was a great flood.  The two stories are so similar that they had to have taken the story from an actual event.  Both Gilgamesh and the Bible told the story of the flood as how they interpreted  it in their culture at the time.  I believe that i flood happened early in the history of the earth and the survivor of the flood passed it down all the way to the time of Gilgamesh and then down to when the bible was written.