Ah, to join in the battle, but I am skeptical about its outcome. Two of my favorite examples from the world of languages are these: In the 19th century, there was a French ANE professor, Halevy, who was skeptical about whether Sumerian (just being to show up in the archeological record in Mesopotamia) was a "real" language or some kind of code or jargon invented by Assyrian scribes and priest to make their writings seem more esoteric held on to this believe to the end, though as more and more evidence that Sumerian was a real language surfaced, many of his supporters decamped. The other one took place in the '50s of the previous century. After Michael Ventris presented his decipherment of Linear B (as an archaic Greek language), there were some old-timers who were not convinced. Most everybody today follows Ventris'.
The thing that was interesting in both cases is how ad hominem and vociferous the argument became. Human nature one suspects. And, how little anybody knows of or even remembers it today.
[Edit: removed a superfluous "in both cases".]
