What makes Muslims so sure that God exists? - Part3
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What makes Muslims so sure that God exists? - Part 3
The Quran on Mountains:
A book entitled Earth is a basic reference textbook in many universities around
the world.
One
of its two authors is Professor Emeritus Frank Press. He was the
Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter, and for 12 years
was the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
His book says that mountains have underlying roots1. These roots are deeply
embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg (see figures 7,
8, and 9).
Figure 7:Mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground. (Earth,
Press and Siever, p. 413.)
Figure 8:Schematic section. The mountains, like pegs, have deep roots embedded
in the ground. (Anatomy of the Earth, Cailleux, p. 220.)
Figure 9:Another
illustration shows how the mountains are peg-like in shape, due to
their deep roots. (Earth Science, Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 158.)
This is how the Quran has described mountains. God has said in the Quran:
Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?
[Quran, 78:6-7]
Modern
earth sciences have proven that mountains have deep roots under the
surface of the ground (see figure 9) and that these roots can reach
several times their elevations above the surface of the ground2.
So
the most suitable word to describe mountains on the basis of this
information is the word peg, since most of a properly set peg is
hidden under the surface of the ground.
The
history of science tells us that the theory of mountains having deep
roots was introduced only in the latter half of the nineteenth century3.
Mountains also play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth4.
They hinder the shaking of the earth. God has said in the Quran:
And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake with
you...
[Quran 16:15]
Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as
stabilizers for the earth.
This
knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has
just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since
the late 1960s.5
Conclusion:
Could anyone during the time of the Prophet Muhammad have known of the true
shape of mountains?
Could
anyone imagine that the solid massive mountain which he sees before him
actually extends deep into the earth and has a root, as scientists
assert?
A
large number of books of geology, when discussing mountains, only
describe that part which is above the surface of the earth.
This
is because these books were not written by specialists in geology.
However, modern geology has confirmed the truth of the Quranic verses.
Footnotes:
(1)Earth, Press and Siever, p. 435. Also see Earth Science, Tarbuck and
Lutgens, p. 157.
(2)The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran, El-Naggar, p. 5.
(3)The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran, p. 5.
(4)The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran, pp. 44-45.
(5)The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran, p. 5.
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http://islam-heart.blogspot.com/2008/11/does-god-exist-part-3.html
1. What makes Muslims so sure that God exists? Part 2
http://islam-heart.blogspot.com/2008/11/does-god-exist-part-2.html
1. What makes Muslims so sure that God exists? Part 1
http://islam-heart.blogspot.com/2008/11/does-god-exist-part-i.html
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