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As can clearly be seen, you are disputing the claim that Chazal got scientific knowledge from the science/scientists of their time, and you are disputing the claim that Chazal’s scientific statements were incorrect (or you say that Chazal purposely said incorrect science but they themselves knew the correct science, but that renders the entire discussion irrelevant because no one is trying to prove that Chazal were stupid; only that their scientific statements may not reflect scientific reality).
I brought several sources that explicitly say that Chazal got scientific knowledge from the science/scientists of their time. These cannot be a “minority opinion because two of the sources were from the Gemara. (If you wanted you could have employed R’ Meiselman’s theory that there is a difference between definitive statements and non-definitive statements, but nowhere in this thread did you do so.)