Summations Only

Well I'll just put us at the 300 mark so we can get to those wonderful summaries I'm sure will astound us.

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The text clearly states that God will flood the entire Earth.

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IAJ is more correct that it refers to the region, not the planet. The text doesn't say Earth it says earth, which does not refer to our planet. The Hebrew words refer to the ground and to the land and if you want to get into that issue, there is a thread for that called Not The Planet.

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The text clearly states that Noah must take two of every living thing (of flesh) onto the ark.

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It also says he is to take 7 of every clean animal. The text also says that Noah is to take every kind of food that is eaten and store it up and it serves as food for Noah and for the animals. (Genesis 6:21)

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The text clearly states that Noah and all of his house goes into the ark.

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God has already made provisions for storing food needed for Noah's family. This would already include livestock. IMO, the two of every kind are the protected passengers to be preserved to repopulate. So when God tells Noah and his household to go into the Ark, IMO he is referring to Noah and his family, not his stuff and his livestock. The food issue has already been taken care of and doesn't take away from the two of a kind.

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What does 'the earth' refer to in chapter 6 of Genesis.

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What does 'all flesh' refer to in chapter 6 of Genesis

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As I said earlier, "the earth" refers to either the ground or the land which is regional and not planetary.Flesh refers to humans. Also notice what God said in 6:7. Haadam is used and translated earth. So God is going to destroy the people he created from the area. This is a cultural story. We have become accustomed to viewing it as planetary and all encompassing, but IMO it isn't and the text doesn't really say that it is planetary either.Although Noah found favor in God's eyes, we see in Genesis 8:21 that God still considered mankind to be corrupt. Apparently Noah wasn't the worst of the bunch. This is a cultural flood story, not a planetary flood story.

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Monotheism did not change the universe or any gods. How did monotheism change any part of the universe outside this one planet? How were any other gods changed by monotheism? Does your faith not state that there are no other gods? How could monotheism change gods that it does not support the existence of?

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You really need to stop reading IAJ so literally.
If you really want to know the answers to those questions, I suggest reading a bit on the history of monotheism and how it impacted various cultures.IAJ's wording may not be as exact as you wish it to be, but then neither is yours and neither is mine. We really aren't going for precision writing here. Try to grasp his overall point concerning the topic.Now on to summations.