Quran and modern science compatible or incompatible
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plates float on a partially molten region called<br />
aesthenosphere.<br />
Mountain f<strong>or</strong>mations occur at the boundary of the<br />
plates. The earth’s crust is 5 km thick below oceans,<br />
about 35 km thick below flat continental surfaces<br />
<strong>and</strong> almost 80 km thick below great mountain<br />
ranges. These are the strong foundations on which<br />
mountains st<strong>and</strong>. The Qur’an refers to the strong<br />
mountain foundations in the following verse:<br />
“And the mountains<br />
hath He firmly fixed.”<br />
[Al-Qur’an 79:32] 1<br />
Thus, the inf<strong>or</strong>mation contained in the Gl<strong>or</strong>ious<br />
Qur'an about the nature of mountains, is in perfect<br />
agreement with recent discoveries in geology.<br />
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A similar message is contained in the Qur’an in 88:19.
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