Quote:Huh? You were happily "debunking" the idea of mountains having roots before, and now that we've shown you they do you're denying that it's a valid translation? Like I said -- I'm not going to get into arguments over the meanings of Arabic words with you. If you want to discuss that you'll have to hit up one of the other members here.
Where have "we" shown anyone that mountains have roots? You cut and pasted a link to a website. Super!.
You're attempting to prove a scientific miracle in the quran by playing fast and loose with interpretations. From your prior post:
<i></i>"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."
I suppose you are tasked with defining which descriptions of quaranic science are "descriptors" and which are not.
Quote:I've provided a site that explains how mountains stabilize the earth. You haven't addressed the specific claims other than to suggest that the information on the site is wrong. Fair enough -- let us entertain the idea that the site is not accurate. Do you have information countering it?
You cut and pasted from http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_25.html, a site, a front for an Islamic propoganda website.
Here's the comment again, and it remains fully unanswered:
"Mountains do not stabilize the earth's crust, they invariably are the result of plate tectonics which is exactly the opposite 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. .