After such a long and thoughtful response, that this is all you could manage in reply is exceedingly disappointing, intellectually--exceedingly brief, with one appeal to authority (correction about profession), and one blanket assertion without argument.

Although it doesn't follow that your position is wrong, your main arguments are undermined, and so nobody should believe your position on the basis of your arguments if you can't at least point to some indication that these counterarguments are incorrect or at least not the whole story!