Dear Avira,
So your fooling yourself instead of being called a fool.
If you really believe that you must take chazal’s word for it, than you would. And say it’s a crushing question, I’m sorry I can’t help you but I believe chazal more than all the evidence of the world.
By your counter-attacking anyone who disagrees with your belief system and insisting that chazal have not been disputed by the evidence, you demonstrate that whole chazal-knew-everything-even-if-they-never-said-it belief system is a cover up.
If you have strong convictions, it’s worth being called a fool for them. Just simple values. Drop the intellectual superiority for once. Chazal had great human insight, besides their intellectual pursuit of wisdom.