I don't make naked assertions. I'm a scientist. Actually, an engineer...which is even better. ;-)
There is absolutely nothing that the Bible affirms that is even remotely mythical. What the Bible affirms is 100% true.
Well, I don't know what the Bible is "asserting" and what it's simply joking. But if the Bible is "asserting" that a boat was built on which 2 of ALL the animals on earth were kept, for 40 days and 40 nights, ~4000 year ago...that's simply nonsense.
And if you think it's anything BUT nonsense, I challenge you and your like-minded brethren to build such a boat, and get 2 of EVERY animal on earth, and put them on that boat, for 40 days and 40 nights. You couldn't come even CLOSE to building such a boat...even with today's technology. Plus, you would spend more than 1 lifetime (I guess that was easy for Noah, because he lived 400+ years? ;-)) even collecting all those animals. By the time you collected the last two polar bears, the first two giraffes would be dead.
The literal story of the Ark is absolute nonsense. Simple myth. Maybe some old guy and his family lived on a boat with a handful of animals, 4000 years ago. But the very idea of building a boat and putting two of ALL the animals on earth on that boat, for 40 days and 40 nights, 4000 years ago, is nonsens. Or a matter of faith. Take your pick.
If you ever get serious, what you are scoffing at the edges of has been worked out, and there is nothing incredible about Noah and his ark whatever.
Engineer, eh? That's great. My two year old loves trains. (c;
Dan