Wonderful!
Guess what, then — Chazal aren’t interested in science (as it is presently defined)!
So all the arguing is meaningless.
Lice can come from eggs on a physical level — but Chazal meant something else when they said that they don’t.
The universe can have existed for billions of years on a physical level — but Chazal meant something else when they said that it’s only ~6000 years old.
And so on and so forth.
In other words, Chazal aren’t really making scientific statements (as we understand them today) — they were making metaphysical/mystical statements.
That’s fine. I’m perfectly willing to believe that the universe is billions of years old and that Chazal had some other deeper meaning behind their statement.
The Wolf