Ben Levi:
You say that I am missing the point. R’ Slifkin has posited that a scientific statement made by Chazal was not necessarily culled from the infallible Torah, and it may be incorrect. This has no bearing on halacha. You have said several times that R’ Slifkin has no leg to stand on and has no basis. I provided quite a few sources that indeed show such a basis. You are entitled to believe whatever you want, but you are not entitled to say that everyone always held this way, when I have showed that this is not true. So what point am I missing?