Squeak,
You said” But I think that a present day talmid chochom would be able to easily refute any bible criticism that comes his way withough actively studying the subject. One with a true understanding of the Torah can defend it from falsehood”
That is simply not true and is very well demonstrated by rabbi miller’s faulty attepmts at disproving both evolution and bible critcisim.
Joseph,
what you arnt getting is that it dosnt matter what the chazon ish said on this subject as other talmidei chachomim who we have no real reason to assume were any less great then the chazon ish argued on him.
If you decide to hold by evrey opinion of the chazon ish that is fine but if someone else dosnt and you have no real logical reason to say that they are wrong (if you do please post one) for going with a talmid chochom (M.O. or otherwise) who argues on the chazon ish be very carefull before you are mvazeh there talmidei chachomim or look down at them.