Wednesday, November 15, 2006

4) MOUNTAINS ARE CREATED TO PREVENT EARTHQUAKES? ;-)
A fourth scientific contradiction critics use is the claim that the quran says mountains were created to prevent earthquakes. In reality, mountians were created as a result of earthquakes,[16] and mountains do not render the earth's crust stable.[17]

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; (16:15)
And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them, and We have made therein broad highways (between mountains) for them to pass through: that they may receive Guidance. (21:31)



Critics say these verses show that the writer of the quran did not know the reason for the creation of mountians. These verses say that mountians were created to prevent earthquakes, while modern geology tells us that mountians were created because of earthquakes and not to prevent them. [18][19]

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Take a college geology 101 class. Mountains are like nails in the earth. They not only are thick layers of crust above the surface, but they dig deep into the earth. Very recent scientific discoveries have proven that mountains play not only an aesthetic role in our lives, but they absorb much of the seismic activity that the earth unleashes continuously. And this is a known fact in a 1500 year old book.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q7x1h6664667q405/

Anonymous said...

if you do not know ask the one who knows.
visit the below link you will get information in great detail with scientific proof. if you are genius remove this errant message from your site

http://www.answering-christianity.com/mountains.htm

szuberi said...

myth busted

Anonymous said...

Not everyone can be a scientist, geologist, historian, translator, etc. However we all need to decided for ourselves what we believe the "truth" is. Down the line questions like these will come up, it's best not to attack the blogger for his thought but rather just post a thoughtful reply full of proof.

Sarcastically telling the blogger to take a Geology 101 class only shows the intolerance that person has to people who talk out of ignorance about his book. Whether the person truly is talking out of ignorance or not I can't say.

I read about Seismic Activity and Mountains on wikipedia, which should be a pretty unbiased source in many cases, yet I found nothing about mountains preventing shaking.

In continental collisions the mountains are formed and when mountains are formed they also sink deeper into the earth to create equilibrium. This might be the nails you are talking about, the mountains that go below the earth because of the weight of the mountains pushing them in. Like a boat on the water that takes on more weight will sink further into the water So do the mountains on the surface of the earth sink further into the earth.

If Muhammed infact wrote the book out of his own knowledge, why would he even mention mountains preventing shaking? That is something that should be questioned. That would seem like a pretty random thing for a person to think on his own in that time period.

However, even if proven though, the Devil also would know why the mountains were put in their place, and could freely give that information to a person if he so wanted. So it would show that the information Muhammed received may have been outside of his own knowledge, but not necessarily God given.

I'd love to hear more replies on this subject.

Anonymous said...

"However, even if proven though, the Devil also would know why the mountains were put in their place, and could freely give that information to a person if he so wanted. So it would show that the information Muhammad received may have been outside of his own knowledge, but not necessarily God given."

Thanks for asking such a question about our religion :).
Simple, the devil wouldn't tell you to be fair with people. The devil wouldn't tell you to give money to the poor. The devil wouldn't tell you to not have sex before marriage (fornication). The devil wouldn't tell you to wash your self before you pray to respect Allah. The devil wouldn't tell us to start every prayer by saying "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan." The devil wouldn't have talk bad about himself through out the Quran. The devil wouldn't want you to worship God alone (Allah is God translation in Arabic, even Christians call God Allah in Arabic.) The devil wouldn't tell you to remember Allah every second in your life. The devil wouldn't tell you how respectful the prophets were and how obedient to Allah they were, and he wouldn't tell you to try your best to be like them. The devil wouldn't tell you to respect your parents. The list goes on and on. Islam is by no means an evil religion. Some might bring up those "slaughtering" verses in the Quran, but I would recommend to go read the verses in their context. All of them tell you to fight only those who fight you (self protection, right to bear arms ;) ) And if the enemy surrenders, the devil wouldn't tell you to stop the war but he would tell you to slaughter every single one until they are all dead.
I hope you start reading about Islam from the right sources :) Because all those trash-talking about Islam has been all debunked.

Anonymous said...

Quran is great and you who created this website I suggest you to stop this website and stop it's false information that you provide to people ....the mountain is exaclty correct of what God had said and discribed it in the Quran.
you need to re-read it if you do not know...and not just that re-look at the science about Mountains and others...
Surely you will say they do match

Unknown said...

I don't know what kind of modern geology you've been reading about, but it's pretty much common knowledge these days that mountains stabilize the Earth.

Anonymous said...

stabalizing and preventing earthquakes are 2 different things buddy. why does the Quran say the earth is flat?

Anonymous said...

As'salam'o'alyikum broz & sisz

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; (16:15)

"shake with you" actually relates to one of the scientific law,which states that when you exert a force on a body,it tends to move in the direction of the force,means for earth to get revolved with the back push of our steps on it and earthquake dont revolve the earth.

"shake with you" doesnt mean an earthquake ;-)

Thanks for reading.

"While they will never have any of His Knowledge unless He wills."

SAVEDAN.

Winters.quest said...


NONE of the quotes I will list below involve a 'right to bear arms'!! OR self protection. Like this gem: "Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion shall reign supreme." (Surah 8:36-) This is Islam as the aggressor, as usual. Evil is the only reason to attack people who don't see things the same as you. You attack because you are afraid. Fear is the driving force behind putting a literal AND figurative veil over your eyes. No one wants to find out they have been believing in a pack of lies, lies that men tell to explain the world around them and then worse, to control people around them Islam was born of the greedy desire to war, an excuse for arabs to attack their neighbors and it still goes on today! Funny what a streeetchhh people are willing to go to to show that their 1500 year old book is true- of course your willing to look at it with a blind eye-you dedicated your life to it.
These are things 'the devil' WOULD say;

Believers, do not make friends with any but your own people...They desire nothing but your ruin....You believe in the entire Book...When they meet you they say: 'We, too, are believers.' But when alone, they bite their finger-tips with rage." (Surah 3:118, 119)

If you should die or be slain in the cause of God, His forgiveness and His mercy would surely be better than all the riches..." (Surah 3:156-)

"Seek out your enemies relentlessly." (Surah 4:103-)

"Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends." (Surah 5:51)
Believers, when you encounter the infidels on the march, do not turn your backs to them in flight. If anyone on that day turns his back to them, except it be for tactical reasons...he shall incur the wrath of God and Hell shall be his home..." (Surah 8:12-)

"...make war on the leaders of unbelief...Make war on them: God will chastise them at your hands and humble them. He will grant you victory over them..." (Surah 9:12-)

"Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]...until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued." (Surah 9:27-)

"If you do not fight, He will punish you sternly, and replace you by other men." (Surah 9:37-)

"Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them." (Surah 9:121-)

I have underlined about 80 or more verses like this in the Koran. There are more. What is the justification for Hate? for violence? How does this make sense for you?

Winters.quest said...

oh, and BTW, I'm not even being sarcastic. Read the above post..I really would like to know how this makes sense for you?

Anonymous said...

it talks about how it says in the Quran that “Mountains are made to prevent earthquakes”, which in also a misinterpretation…. I have a Quran in my hand with explanation on this, and this is what is says: Here and elsewhere, the Earth is spoken of as a spacious carpet beneath our feet and the hills as a stead agent to the carpet from rolling or shaking about. In 78:7 they are spoken of as pegs or stakes.

It says 78:6-7 -> Have we not made the Earth as a wide expanse, and the mountains as pegs?

Think about it this way: if the mountains didn’t extend far into the ground, wouldn’t they be able to shake and move? That’s why there are pegs (Extends into the ground) in order to keep it firm. It says nothing about earthquakes. In Arabic and in the Quran, Earthquake is called ‘zilzalah’, which it mentions nothing about in this particular verse, so the person from that website you gave me interpreted it wrong…. Likewise, trees have roots in order to hold onto the earth, and the more those roots extend, the more stable it is and the less likely it is to fall. The mountains pegs secures it to the earth (earth as in dirt), to refrain it from rolling.

For the next part, where is gives a verse saying that the moon gives off light, this is what it means:

The glorious lamp of the skies is the sun; and next to it is the moon, which gives borrowed light. According to wikianswers, 7% of the light from the sun is reflected from the moon. The Quran didn’t say that the moon Produced light, just that it was a source of light, which is true 100%.

Anonymous said...

Muslims are bunch of lunatics.if someone says 2+2 =4 and quran says 2+2= 5.they would still belive the quran.they have explanation for everything for everything that is criticized in qurans .their brain is like empty vessel that makes only noise when moved ,so no point in proving anything to them.its proven beyond point that earthquake are due to shifting of faults line of the earth and mountains have nothing to do either with its occurrence or stability...this people ar illiterate and they will never understand.even the campaign drive against polio was considered anti islamic in their view, how ignorant these people can get?