Originally Posted by farhad (Post 8204343)

I've taken an interest in geology after the revelation of the quran that mountains play a role in the balance of stability and movement of the earth's crust. According to the quran the mountain sunk underneath the mantle in the form of a root of stakes plays a role in the balance of the earths crust and this phenomena is known as Isostacy. after much research and mixed information online, I've finally stumbled on a reputable source outside of islam the encyclopedia of Britannica seemed to have confirmed and supports the quranic geological statement.




Regards to quran quote here they are.
We placed firmly embedded mountains on the earth, so it would not move under them… (Qur'an, 21:31)

Have We not made the earth as a bed and the mountains its "stakes"? (Qur'an, 78:6-7)

He] cast firmly embedded mountains on the earth so that it would not move under you… (Qur'an, 31:10)

This describes the mountains roles to balance the earths crust

You see the mountains you reckoned to be solid going past like clouds. (Qur'an, 27:88)

This is what the quran says that mountains digged deep underneath in the form of root structure or stake helps to balance the above crust. and the last verse also says mountains also are not completely fixed, they move in very slow motion as continental crust drifts.

hope that explains everything.

Originally Posted by kirklancaster (Post 8204640)

Welcome back Farhad. I wondered where you'd got to.

Yes, it's always good when 'science'proves your Holy Book is correct in some things.

For years the 'establishment' view among scholars has been that the Biblical account of Joshua bringing down the walls of Jericho could not be true because at the time of the supposed event - 1400 BC - Jericho was already nothing more than an abandoned ruin, and a date for its destruction was firmly fixed at 1550 to 1600 BC.

This 'scientific' view that Jericho fell some 150 years earlier than the Biblical account, was largely due to the work in the 1950's of a British Archeologist, Kathleen Kenyon.




Kenyon was a protege of another archeologist, John Garstang, who in the 1930's, excavated Tell-es-Sultan which is the site of Jericho, and his findings CORROBORATED the date of the biblical account. Years later, when Kenyon undertook further excavation at Jericho, Garstang fully expected her to substantiate his findings, but she did the exact opposite, came up with her own - much earlier date - which discredited both Garstang AND the Biblical account, and made herself famous into the bargain.

After Kenyon, Garstang's findings were ignored and the biblical date for the fall of Jericho was ridiculed.

Now, however, as so often happens in the 'scientific' world, extensive new work by Bryant G. Wood - the world's foremost authority on Caananite pottery, has shown that Kenyon was WRONG and Garstang was CORRECT - the walls of Jericho DID fall in 1400 as the Bible claims it did.

There are many, many instances of 'science' ultimately proving the Bible correct but such news is hardly heralded to the world at large because each finding further weakens the case of extreme atheists.

I shall look into this geological news which you report Farhad - thank you for posting it.

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 8204891)

well you certainly have convinced me

I actually thought mountains were no more than folded rock due to tectonic movement a bit like when you press a sheet of paper together from both sides


It just shows you that the Quran really is the place to go for all your geological needs


By the way I found a homosexual the other day, can you tell me what needs to be done?