“I wrote the above articles a year and a half ago, and have revisited the topic many times since, and yet people still keep trying to draw me into the same arguments I have addressed many times.”
You are very patient, Rich.
People need certainty. So they want to believe that only one outcome is possible. Anything that gets in the way of that belief tends to get brushed aside – over and over again. At some point, it’s best to just ignore it.