I read what you had to say regarding Roger and his comments. He never stated or inferred that geologists were stupid. Nor did he suggest that the "hardned basalt, formerly molten mgma, contains oil. You brought up these topics.

Mr. Paradigm Shifter, please read the posts you are referring to a little closer before you start telling me who said what. Obliviously you did not do this. I wrote:

The deep ocean, off the continental shelf is not sedimentary rock, it is basement basalt, pushed up from the mantle as it pushes the continents apart. It contains no oil. We know that Roger,…

Roger, in his reply, indicated that we do not know that at all. He replied:

How many times have we used the words you used in your reply "It contains no oil. We know that...." and been completely wrong?

I then explained why we knew we were not wrong this time.

I hope that clears things up for you Paradigm Shifter. But in case it does not I will go over it again:

I stated that we knew there was no oil in the deep ocean basaltic ocean floor.

Roger stated that when we have made such statements in the past we have often been completely wrong.

I further explained why we were obviously not wrong this time!

Clear enough?

Ron Patterson