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There is no record of the Pentateuch prior to the Dead Sea Scrolls and a possible range of time of compilation ~1000- 700 BCE. The Hebrew language did not exist much before this. There is no Hebrew text prior to the Sumerian, Babylonian, nor Canaanite accounts
Myths are often based on real life events. But we know that there was nothing close to the flood in the Bible. Mankind was never threatened with extinction animal life was not threatened with extinction That some demand a child's view of the Bible be true is rather ridiculous.
Only seven people on the boat and one giant beetle.
The boat in this picture to me doesn't appear very large, a row boat the length of eight miniature people standing whom a giant person can lift is hardly of any significance relevant to anything else other than perhaps simple maritime mythology.
You need a very strong source to make that claim. Though older than the Old Testament it is not thought to be nearly that old. If is more likely to have been written from 1,700 to 1,100 BC. That is about a thousand years older than the Old Testament. You may be making the same error that Christians make, that of treating "historical" parts of your holy book literally.
6 human-headed ones on that boat, one hawk headed one, and a large beetle. What does the Egyptian text say?
The rise in sea level was never catastrophic. At that time man only had villages. Moving back from a rising sea slowly over the years would not have been a problem.
I don't think I am making a mistake. The rise of sun on the day of vernal equinox in the asterism of Orion is mentioned repeatedly in RigVeda. The Aryans began their new year at that time. It is also mentions that in that age Sirius (Dog Star, Shwana) heralded coming of spring. That makes it from around 4,000 BC. There are references to an even earlier phase when the vernal equinox happened in the asterism of Castor and Pollux, although that reference is not very strong which would make the story even older. Hindus changed the beginning of their two-part year by three months, which would be necessitated in 6,000 years due to the precession of equinoxes. The concept that RigVeda is from 1,700 to 1.100 BCE was the first estimation by Indologists and hugely incorrect. The Vedas and Zorostrian Gathas/Yasna are older than that and both are from the same stock with same mythologies and language. Their mythologies have their parallels in all European mythologies, their language also is derived from the same stock as the European languages (PIE).
You need something stronger than just your say so or a link to an apologist site.
My point exactly.
I thought that was funny, but then, the notion of "eight men with cox" has a certain cachet for me...
The theory I like is that the Noah's Ark myth, and other Mediterranean variants thereof, are folk memory of the Black Sea inundation, retold and mythologised over thousands of years, although the theory has fallen from favour in recent years.