Quranic Miracles

[Khairan]

Where have "we" shown anyone that mountains have roots? You cut and pasted a link to a website. Super!.

It's a lot more than you've done. So far, you seem to be demanding an awful lot of evidence and offering precious little of your own.

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.

You're right -- and as one of my early posts in this thread noted, Muslims run into problems for this very reason. The Qur'an is not a book of science, and although it is obvious that certain things are being described poetically while others are not, it certainly does create a bit of a ruckus when we attempt to sort the two. You'll get no argument from me there that at the least it can *appear* to be dishonest when Muslims try to do so. That's why I hate these debates.

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. Allah is wrong".

I don't know why you keep insisting that it's unanswered. The site very specifically addresses your claims.
1. You are wrong that mountains have no roots.


2. It is not news that mountains are formed by plate tectonics. The site explains this, and it is not problematic.


3. The site describes how a presence of a mountain stabilizes plates.


You have at no point addressed any of these claims. All you have done is say that the site is wrong. Now that leaves the question: Can you back it up?