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B) The Quran on
Mountains:
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A book entitled Earth is a basic
reference
textbook in many universities around the world. One of its two authors
is
Professor Emeritus Frank Press. He was the Science Advisor to former US
President Jimmy Carter, and for 12 years was the President of the
National
Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. His book says that mountains have
underlying roots.1
These
roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape
like a peg
(see figures 7, 8, and 9).
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| Figure 7: Mountains have deep
roots
under the surface of the ground. (Earth, Press and Siever,
p. 413.)
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| Figure 8: Schematic section.
The
mountains, like pegs, have deep roots embedded in the ground. (Anatomy
of the Earth, Cailleux, p. 220.) (Click on the image to
enlarge
it.)
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| Figure 9: Another illustration
shows
how the mountains are peg-like in shape, due to their deep roots. (Earth
Science, Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 158.) (Click on the image to
enlarge it.)
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This is how the Quran has described
mountains. God has said in the Quran:
 Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the
mountains as pegs? 
(Quran, 78:6-7)Modern earth sciences have proven that
mountains
have deep roots under the surface of the ground (see figure 9) and that
these
roots can reach several times their elevations above the surface of the
ground.2
So the most suitable word to describe mountains on the basis of this
information
is the word ‘peg,’ since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the
surface of the ground. The history of science tells us that the theory
of
mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half of
the
nineteenth century.3
Mountains also play an important role in
stabilizing the crust of the earth.4
They hinder the shaking of the earth. God has said in the Quran:
And He has set firm mountains in the earth so
that it would not shake with
you...
(Quran, 16:15)
Likewise, the modern theory of plate
tectonics
holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth. This knowledge
about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun
to be
understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s.5
Could anyone during the time of the
Prophet
Muhammad 
have known of the true shape of mountains?  Could anyone
imagine that the
solid massive mountain which he sees before him actually extends deep
into the
earth and has a root, as scientists assert? A large number of books of
geology, when discussing mountains, only describe that part which is
above the
surface of the earth. This is because these books were not written by
specialists in geology. However, modern geology has confirmed the truth
of
the Quranic verses.
Next: The Quran
on the Origin of the Universe
| _____________________________Footnotes:(1) Earth,
Press
and Siever, p. 435. Also see Earth Science, Tarbuck and Lutgens,
p.
157.  (2) The
Geological
Concept of Mountains in the Quran, El-Naggar, p. 5. (3) The
Geological
Concept of Mountains in the Quran, p. 5. (4) The
Geological
Concept of Mountains in the Quran, pp. 44-45. (5) The
Geological
Concept of Mountains in the Quran, p. 5.
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