Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Here's Proof That Mountain That Moves

In one verse, we are told that the mountains do not stand still as they seem, but they are constantly moving.

"And you see those mountains, you would have thought he was firmly in place, and he's running as a way of clouds. (That's) act of God which makes a sturdy all things; Allah is Informed of what ye do." (Qur'an, 27:88)
Movement of the mountains is caused by movement of the earth's crust where they are.The crust is like floating on a denser layer of magma. At the beginning of the 20th century, for the first time in history, a German scientist named Alfred Wegener proposed that continents on the surface of the earth together in the early days of the earth, but then shifted into a different direction so separate as they move together away.
The geologists understand the truth of Wegener's statement was only in 1980, ie 50 years after his death. As once noted by Wegener in a paper published in 1915, about 500 million years ago all the land the land that is in the earth's surface is a single entity originally called Pangaea. Mainland is located at the south pole.
Approximately 180 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts each of which move in different directions. One of the mainland or the giant continent Gondwana was, which include Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India. The second is a giant continent Laurasia, which consisted of Europe, North America and Asia, except India. Over 150 years after this separation, Gondwana and Laurasia divided into lands smaller.
Continents that formed following the splitting of Pangaea has been moving on the surface of the Earth continuously as far as several centimeters per year. The incident also led to changes in area ratio between land and sea on Earth.
The movement of the Earth's crust was found after the geological research conducted at the beginning of the 20th century. The scientists explain these events as follows:
The crust and the outer portion of the magma, with a thickness of about 100 km, divided into layers called plates. There are six major plates and several small plates. According to the theory called plate tectonics, these plates move on the surface of the Earth, carrying continents and ocean floor with him. The movement of continents has been measured and the speed of 1 to 5 cm per year. Plates are constantly moving, and produce changes in the geography of the earth slowly. Every year, for example, the Atlantic Ocean becomes slightly wider. (Carolyn Sheets, Robert Gardner, Samuel F. Howe; General Science, Allyn and Bacon Inc.. Newton, Massachusetts, 1985, s. 30)
There are very important things worth noting here: in the verse God has called on the motion of mountains as the clouds travel mengapungnya. (Today, modern scientists also use the term "continental drift" or "floating movement of the continent" for this movement. (National Geographic Society, the Powers of Nature, Washington DC, 1978, s.12-13)
No question about it, is one of the miracles the Qur'an that this scientific fact, a recently discovered by scientists, has been revealed in the Qur'an.
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