Hi Parsomnium. Is this meant as an addendum to the just closed buz/jar debate? How do we know when we're off topic here? Anyhow, regardless, it's a sensible and interesting approach. I see either of the above emerging either directly or indirectly by intelligent design, depending on the designer's plan and purpose. The smooth mountain/hill might have been pruposefully as such so as to fit the purposes of Mt. Zion at Jerusalem, the temple mount, whereas the other might have been purposely designed so as to prevent Eastern invaders from easy access to the sacred place. Then two the designer might have no specific purpose for either, leaving the eruption or whatever to randomly form, but within the limits of his perameters.
Biblically speaking, I believe it's in Isaiah someplace where it says God touches the mountains and they smoke. In Psalms 104 he made the valleys sink and the mountains rise up, relative to the great flood.
At Armageddon we are told that the Mount of Olives will separate/divide in two via earthquake leaving an East/West valley with a river flowing to the seas. Also the mother of all earthquakes will shake down the whole planet, cities, mountains, islands and all, according to Revelation 16, one of the verses near the end of the chapter.
AbE: removed "the possibility of" from sentence five.
This message has been edited by buzsaw, 12-23-2005 11:04 AM
The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buzsaw
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