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Kahane-Was-Right BT:
I may not have said that clearly enough.  Ibn ezra feels free to argue on chazal in instances where they read in impossible/improbable miracles to the text where they are not said explicitly by the text itself.  One could argue that some of those instances he is simply arguing against a literal interpretation of certain midrashim (the examples you brought from the hagada may well fit that), but nonetheless there are at least a few individual circumstances where he undeniably argues on chazal's view in a matter of this nature.  He has a much more, call it inclusive approach to interpretation.

Modification - Actually in some way it's exclusive.   Exclusive interpretation in the sense that not just any very imaginative improbable event can be read into the text (In other words, his methodology is more exclusive).   But on the other hand it's inclusive in the sense that he holds interpretation of the Torah is not limited strictly to chazal, and other Torah scholars can disagree on matters of interpretation with chazal (so his understanding of the authority of interpretation is more inclusive).

muman613:
Rabbi Richman discusses this at 3:36 in this video:

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