Anon – i have a question.
What’s worse: one who openly denied chazal, tanach, or anything else in Torah, and does not try to put their apikorsus on to the rishonim/achronim, but rather says “chazsl say this, and I say that”
Or someone who twists chazsl, rishonim and achronim into their apikorsus, thinking that it is Judaism’s own perspective that chazal were mistaken and/or ignorant of science.
You’re the former; i think there’s a lot more hope for you, because you admit at least that chazal say something about their knowledge of science. So if you’re mechazek yourself and perhaps are careful about the things chazal say are tied to emunah(chometz on pesach, chalav akum, anger, etc..) you’ll join the ranks of shlomei emunas yisroel.
For our other discussion partner, i believe it’ll be much harder; he has actual apikorsus dripping from his words and is skilled enough to know better.