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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|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=== | ||