Reply to Hearty and Tormey: Use the scientific method to test geologic hypotheses, because rocks do not whisper. - Rovere A; Casella E; Harris DL; Lorscheid T; Nandasena NAK; Dyer B; Sandstrom MR; Stocchi P; D'Andrea WJ; Raymo ME (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018)