Just as it was in the days of Noah, page-148

Israelite writers of scripture collecting and adapting creation myths from surrounding cultures (Adam and Eve, Noah, etc, being a part of older cultures) in order to create a Tribal/religious identity for their own people, followed by embellishments such as the book of Enoch, being apocryphal, followed by a progressive evolution of ideas about the god of the bible, being a tribal construct, culminating in the New Testament, which the Judaism rejects....