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Ben Levi! I gave you a summary of the Pirush Hamisnayos. To re-iterate- there is a context in thre discussion of the “three groups”. It is useless to translate the words verbatim-especially as the original was written in arabic- because you don’t want to see that what the Rambam is referring to has nothing to do with the natural sciences. It has to do with Maamorei chazal -same as in the context of the Tenach,like Shir Hashirim,Iyov and the like-that have a difficult meaning. The first group belieives that it is what it says (for example, believieng chas vesholom that the Almighty has a body-see the first chelek in Moreh nevochim), the second group dismisses the whole subject and laughs at it (tyhis is why they are fools) and then the third group that understands that there is a deeper meaning to chazal.
You are welcome to beleive that ever ymaamr chazal is written in code and I say that thsi does not apply to natural sciences. By the way, thsi has nothing to do whether we are bounf to aggadata.