Well, I just fell into quite a rabbit hole. Today’s talk of the two mountains in the Bible Recap reading plan—Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim—got me curious about mountains in general. We all know that mountains have much significance to God in scripture and many pivotal moments happen on mountaintops. Mountains are a portrait of many qualities of God.

And so, I did a little digging into mountains and what they actually are and what they do for us. Here are a few things I found of interest.

1. Even after mountains stop growing, they exist for millions of years before eroding away.
2. Mountains play a major role in determining global and regional climates. They are the source of most rivers, act as cradles, barriers and bridges for species, and are crucial for the survival and sustainability of many human societies. They provide 60-80% of all freshwater resources. In other words, mountains are crucial to our survival.

But, perhaps, this next bit of information plunged me into the deepest rabbit hole of all while struggling with the scientific claims of the earth being 4.5 billion years old. I hope you can follow this, because I’m not sure I can. Haha. But something here just won’t let go of me.

3. I found this on a website which explores what would happen with no mountains.

“To have a world with no mountains occur naturally, there must be no plate tectonics. To have no plate tectonics, there must either be no moon, or the moon must be tidally locked to prevent its gravitic influence causing heat-producing deformation of the world.

A consequence of this is that there would be no earthquakes and erosion would eventually level land and sea-floor alike until it was eventually all an equal depth beneath the water”

And, pause!

I could be a billion miles off with this, BUT could this explain how science claims the earth is 4.5 billion years old and how biblical timing actually line up. When God appears in Genesis to create the earth as we know it:

“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”

Hmmmm…

I told you it was a deep rabbit hole!

What do you think?