Mountains Stabilize the Earth Dr. William Campbell spent maximum
time on Embryology’… about half his talk - quite a lot on
Geology - and touched on other six topics - I’ve noted down. In
the field of Geology, we have come to know today - the
Geologists, they tell us, that the radius of the Earth is
approximately 3750 miles, and the deeper layers, they are hot
and fluid, and cannot sustain life. And the superficial part of
the Earth’s crust, which we live on, it is very thin - Hardly 1
to 30 miles. Some portions are thicker, but majority one to 30
miles. And there are high possibility that this superficial
layer, the Earth’s crust - it will shake. It is due to the
‘Folding phenomenon’, which gives rise to mountain ranges, which
gives stability to this Earth. And Qur’an says in Surah Nabaa,
Ch. No. 78, Verse No. 6 and 7…‘We have made the Earth as an
expanse…. (Arabic) ….and the mountains as stakes.’ The Qur’an
does not say, mountains were thrown up as stakes… mountain as
stakes. Arabic word ‘Autaad’ means ‘stak