Meert / Brown Debate

Are you freaking kidding me???

I don't know Nosy. Sometimes, I get the feeling Whatever is just playing everyone. He/she never gets annoyed - EVER! Can someone actually be that... passive?He/she acknowledges a wrong and then nonchalantly slides over to the next topic as if being shown he/she is wrong over and over again is an everyday occurrence. A few posts later, states the exact same thing that was shown to be wrong previously.I can't remember if someone already made the analogy, but discussing science with Whatever is like trying to pick jello up with chop sticks.

I've had my suspicions for some time now, but after the Einstein comment, I just can't take Whatever serious anymore... no matter how nice he is.

Ahh, haven't heard that one before. There's also "like trying to catch a greased pig."

We have plenty of evidence that folded sedimentary rocks were deformend after lithification. Sedimentary textures such as grading, ripple marks, mudcracks, etc. can be used to identify stratigraphic-up direction. I'd like to see the process that can simultaneously deposit a graded bed AND deform the unconsolidated layers into recumbent folds.Nevermind the fact that gneiss is not a sedimentary rock. The protolith may have been sedimentary, but the gneiss itself is not the result of sedimentary processes.