Wrong. Mountains are continually moving, granted at a glacial pace, but nonetheless, they are always in motion, due to the fact that the tectonic plates are always in continuous motion and the mountains are above those moving plates.
For example, if two plates are sliding side by side, the mountains are sliding with them and aren't really holding anything. For example, in the Great Rift Valley, mountain ranges that use to be together are now getting further apart, so that tends to blow this thinking of "holding the land in place" right out of the water.[/COLOR]
I wrote an elaborate allusion here, but in so doing realized that the mountains aren't holding anything together at all. It is the plates beneath the mountains that are the key. The pressure they exert on each other is what holds them together... the mountains are merely a by-product of the tectonic interaction, so it is absolutely false to say that mountains are holding the land together because it is the forward momentum of the plates that holds them together. In a very real sense, mountains are only the smoke from the gun.
Response: Just because the mountains are moving does not mean that they are not holding the earth together. I can hold two objects together and move at the same time. So can anyone else. If you can't, that's your issue. But don't make it seem impossible because it's not possible for you.
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No they don't, Fatihah. The mountains are superfluous results of tectonic interaction. It is the force of the plates acting on each other that "holds them together"... the mountains are just along for the ride, as it were.
Think of two huge rectangular buses, parked nose to nose and then have both accelerate into each other. Metal will bend due to the pressure that will build up, but the bent metal is not what is holding the trucks together. It is their forward momentum that is holding them together. Now think of those tectonic plates - so simple.
It doesn't really matter how the Qur'an is interpreted, it is flat out wrong.
It doesn't matter how much of the mountain is below the earth's surface, Fatihah. The mountains have jack squat to do with what is going on here.
That would be because of junk science that doesn't actually know what it is talking about, Fatihah. Still, it isn't a bad description coming from a primitive 7th century perspective. Muhammad looked at his tent pegs and then at mountains. So simple... but ultimately... wrong.
Don't even get me going about volcano's, lol.
Response: Many statements. Where's the proof? And I sincerely hope that you were joking about tectonic plates not being held together by mountains because if you aren't, well that just goes to show how much you know. Perhaps you should try looking it up before you make a response. You'll see the error in your statement. Hopefully your humble enough to admit it.