Question

In the Talmud there are stories brought that literally contradict the laws of nature. Even someone who would say that certain stories that are cited are not necessarily miracles but rather a mistake (of the Sages) in how they viewed them—there are stories that describe a tangible reality, where only two possibilities seem possible: either they were invented, which does not seem plausible to me, or they really happened. Does the Rabbi think that the Sages intended these stories to be understood as having occurred in their plain, literal sense? Examples: resurrection of the dead—Rava slaughtered Rabbi Zeira and brought him back to life, or amoraim who created a third-grown calf, and the like.