The world isn't neatly divided between myth and reality, stories and facts. The Middle-Eastern cultures of the Bible used myths and stories in the same way that their European counterparts did. It's a language, a medium of communication. To focus just on the medium (although there is a place for that) is like looking at the finger pointing.
It should be no surprise that you find similarities between modern-day stories and ancient stories - back then there was less stigma against the creative use of language. It was an oral culture after all. A story culture. They packaged everything they knew that way - even history was not written down for pure sake of history - it meant something. You had to find the moral behind events, and that became part of the history. Facts were not just facts, they were also raw material. Our biases against such "unhistorical", "unscientific" methods is quite modern(istic) (and for good reason, but there's the danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater).
But for the most part, the difference between scientific language and "common" language is artificial. A matter of convenience and clarity. They both use the same dictionary.
Everyone has a narrative in their heads, a story of who they/we are, picked from a storeroom of words and ideas passed on from the past (whether transmitted in writing or by mouth). The worldview from which we interpret reality is woven from threads taken up long before us - from observations, deductions, experiences, wisdom, all woven into stories, partly unravelled again by new observations, deductions, experiences, wisdom and rewoven in new tapestries - beliefs, philosophies, theories, articles, dissertations.
For any of these narratives to make sense to the next generation, they have to be in some logical form: an introduction, a premise, a body, hypothesis/moral, conclusion. Because whatever their message is, they mean to SAY something coherent.
For instance, one modern myth was that people could live clinical, factual lives, their objective minds guided by a superior, rational understanding of the world. It could save humanity from all delusions and superstition, including the tyranny of gods. That, at least, was the dream of the Enlightenment, which turned out to be a scientific fairytale, shattered by new tyrants and two world wars.
One_raven is right. We will do better to try and figure out what stories mean to say, rather than criticise their way of saying it. That requires maturity as well.
