Ben Levi
the rishonim ALL understood chazal as meaning what they said (eg regarding mouse being genertaed from dirt, the earth being covered by a dome)
No you have not answered my question you dodged it by saying you dont know what you would have thought
I am asking if you (who you are today) had lived then and I marveled to you how up to date chazal are on modern science, would you have replied something along thelines of “”not quite chazal dont beleive in mud-mice even though they talk about them they are reffering to some secret sod that nobody can decipher.”
(Note NONE of the rishonim understood chazal this way, in an attempt to “defend” chazal you are saying the rishonim, were wrong Rch”l, but this is a side issue)