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===Mountains prevent earthquakes=== | ===Mountains prevent earthquakes=== | ||
Modern geology has discovered that large plates in the crust of the earth are responsible for the formation of mountains. Called plate | Modern geology has discovered that large plates in the crust of the earth are responsible for the formation of mountains. Called plate tectonics, the slow movement of these massive plates meet and the pressure between them pushes up the crust, forming mountains while also causing earthquakes and faults in the Earth's surface. The formation of mountains and occurance of earthquakes are thus both largely the result of destabilizing tectonic activity. They are part of the same ongoing process and one cannot exist without the other. The Qur'an, by contrast, holds that mountains are like pegs in the ground, stabilizing the Earth which would shake without them. | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|16|15}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|16|15}}| | ||
And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and rivers and roads; that ye may guide yourselves}} | And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and rivers and roads; that ye may guide yourselves}} | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|78|6|7}}|Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, And the mountains as pegs?}} | |||
===Mountains cast upon Earth=== | ===Mountains cast upon Earth=== | ||
Mountains are usually formed through the movement and collision of lithospheric (tectonic) plates. The Quran, by contrast, states that the mountains on Earth's surface were cast | Mountains are usually formed through the movement and collision of lithospheric (tectonic) plates. The Quran, by contrast, states that the mountains on Earth's surface were cast upon it by God. The imagery is clear when one considers the above verses which describe the Mountains as 'pegs' which stabilize the Earth (which is itself compared to a carpet and bed roll). | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|16|15}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|16|15}}| | ||
And He | And He has cast into the earth firmly set mountains, lest it shift with you, and [made] rivers and roads, that you may be guided,}} | ||
The word 'he has cast' is ''alqa'' (lam-qaf-ya), which in this form | The word 'he has cast' is ''alqa'' (lam-qaf-ya), which in this form (Arabic verb form IV) is frequently used elsewhere in the Quran to mean throw or cast. It is the same word as is used in {{Quran|3|44}} when lots are cast using pens (it would be easy to imagine that mountains were similarly scattered), and {{Quran|12|10}} when the prophet Yusuf is cast down into the well, and in {{Quran|20|20}} when Moses casts down his staff, which becomes a snake.<ref>[http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume8/00000266.pdf Lane's Lexicon أَلْقَىٰ]</ref> | ||
===Chests contract with altitude=== | ===Chests contract with altitude=== | ||