Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there support for the "myth" in the archeological record?

If you are referring to the filling of the Black Sea, that is duly mentioned in the article. Such an explanation appeals mostly to those wanting to find some basis for the biblical account, however, since there are other, apparently unrelated deluge myths found all over the world.

There is no evidence for an actual worldwide deluge.

Actually, not only is there no evidence in the archaeological record (and, by extension, the paleontolical) for a global deluge, there is massive evidence against it. A prime example of this is the absence of what is known as 'hydraulic sorting' in sedimentary layers.

That's paleontological, sorry

Hmm. Perhaps not a world-wide deluge, but there is lots of geologic record of rising and falling sea levels, which would seem like a great flood if you lived on the coast.

I like the Younger-Dryas event as a source of flood myths a lot better than the idea that the writers of the Epic of Gilgamesh looked around at marine fossils in the Tigris-Euphrates valley and said "These ancient fossils indicate that this area was once under water, so let's write about a great flood in our epic."

I don't know, it sounds fishy to me. It seems more likely that flood myths are found in so many cultures because there are real FLOODS almost everywhere.

Floods happen. They happen all over the earth. When you're caught up in one, it's easy to think (with out satellite pictures to prove the contrary) that it's so sweeping an event that the whole earth must be flooded. This is even more true when you consider that most persons in antiquity had no direct knowledge of any distant land. The average person knew only their little corner of the earth and everything else was a mysterious rumor.