You think they're done? Oh no.
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there definitely wasn't some earth-covering flood, since that would take a stupendous amount of water that later just vanished.
What is likely however is raised sea levels, drowning low-lying areas like the dogger bank. It's pretty insane how much more land we used to have, doggerland is/was about the size of the netherlands and since it would have been extremely fertile it's likely it was a very important area for people in the past, so frankly it could very well be the source for the atlantis myth even.
Atlantis was a hypothetical society thought up for an argument that everyone immediately took way too seriously.
There are lots of flood myths because humans generally settle near large bodies of water. Large bodies of water tend to flood, sometimes catastrophically.
The Atlantis "myth" was made up by Plato to make a point about what would happen to Athens if they got too big for their britches.
Civilizations that arose around rivers that flooded annually had gods that were largely unconcerned with human matters.
Civilizations that arose around rivers that flooded randomly had angry gods who wanted to punish people.