And here we see a prime example of how taking one heretical idea (that chazal erred in science), which at least was espoused at some point by one or two authentic rabbonim, leads to a wholesale apikorsus that no one has ever condoned – to say that chazal’s worldview is limited by their time and place, and that we can ignore or ‘reinterpret’ statements, torah, that they write such as tav lemaysav, chazakos, based on current society and our ‘enlightened’ perspective. Chazal say that a woman’s place is to be subservient to her husband? trash it! because they were in a time and place where that was the norm.
averah goreres averah.
Saying rav hirsch erred because scientists say that they don’t see a particular species is spurious. chazal say ‘lo rainu aino raya’, that not seeing something is not a proof. Unless that too was because of their time and place – in which case, what parts of the gemara do you ‘agree’ with? conservative judaism basically says that they’ll keep whatever hasn’t been ‘invalidated’ chas veshlom, by modern thought and studies. afra lepumayhu.
you’re knocking on their door without realizing it; actually, you’ve busted that door wide open.