Quote:So... you're supporting the notion that the eruption of volcanoes has a "stabilizing effect on the land"?If I give 1000 people a pill of aspirin every day, as a group they will have far fewer heart attacks than 1000 people who don't take aspirin. If a few of the aspirin-eaters DO have heart attacks, that doesn't mean the aspirin isn't doing its job.
That seems odd to me.
The reductio ad absurdum here that this verse must by definition be referring to EVERY single mountain and volcano everywhere doesn't really hold up. It is describing the phenomenon that the presence of mountains hampers the sliding of layers of the earth over each other. Furthermore, land with mountains is being compared to land without, so there is a suggestion of relativity here. All of this, contrary to your claims earlier in the thread, hold up in the face of what is scientifically known.
Unless you have evidence otherwise, what we have seen is that mountains DO have roots and mountains DO make the earth more stable.