Quote:Mountains do not stabilize the earth's crust, they invariably are the result of plate tectonics which is exactly the <i>opposite</i> of a stable crust. Mountains form where two moving plates collide and buckle-- they have no "roots" and are certainly not “pegs” as they are the crushing and upward thrusting of plates. We sense the illusion of stability because the crust moves slowly and huge sections of it are unaffected directly by the movement. The crust itself is cooled rock floating on magma. If one wants a stable crust, one doesn't live along the plate ridges, where there are our string of mountains shown globally, one lives on the plains, where there are no mountains. Allah is wrong.You are wrong about mountains not having roots. They are not purely superficial structures. Here's more on the issue of mountains and their geological function. What's nice about this link is that they cite textbooks as well in their explanation. Anyway, as I suggested above this shouldn't turn into a debate about "Is the Qur'an a book of science?" It clearly is not. Your comment about lamps and ornaments is neither here nor there because they are obviously poetic devices. They are descriptors, rather than functional claims about the nature of the universe.
http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_25.html