Non Christians pls: How did mountains being created?

Answer 1

by volcanoes

Answer 2

They weren't "created", but how they came about depends. The largest mountains were created by plate tectonics crashing into each other (kind of like how when two cars crash the flat hood becomes mountainous in a sense), a great many others come from volcanic eruptions, hot spots, and other magma exits.

This is completely and absolutely the wrong section to be asking this though, people here are stupid on this subject and not liable to explain it well (or give BS stuff based on the bible). Please direct this question towards the "Earth Sciences and Geology" section.

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Answer 3

How were mountains created? They are uplifted by plate tectonics. The crust of the earth is broken in places, causing it to form large plates which generally form the continents and the basins of the oceans. These plates can move, and since the material beneath them is fluid, they do move. When they do, they cause earthquakes, but they also cause mountains where one plate slides under another, or where two abut so closely that the pressure forces them to fold and buckle, forming mountains.

No, you do not need to postulate a conscious Creator to explain the existence of mountains.

Answer 4

Mountains are created a few different ways (called orogeny).

There are fault block mountains, where faults lift one side of land and drop the other side (ex. Grand Tetons).

Then there are volcanic mountain ranges, usually caused by either subduction or spreading of the earth's tectonic plates.

-The Andes Mountains and Cascade Mountains are examples of volcanic mountains created by ocean-continent subduction zones (ocean plate subducting under continental plate).

-The island nation Indonesia is an example of ocean-ocean subduction.

-The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of a volcanic mountain range that is the result of sea floor spreading.

Then there are the Himalayas, which were (and are being) created by the collision of 2 continental plates, the Indian and Asian plates.

Answer 5

The earth has pieces. They're called "techtonic plates". Those plates moving, through the convection system in the magma of the earth, are what causes things like earthquakes. Where the earth moves apart, you get volcanoes, where it scrapes along each other, you get earthquakes, and where it crashes into each other, you get mountains.

Eventually. It doesn't happen overnight.

Yes, I'm aware that this is a very simplistic explanation but I don't have the time or resources to type out a real explanation at work.

Answer 6

I am enjoying reading the other answers given here.
There IS a more suitable category for this question - Earth Sciences & Geology.
How WERE montains created?
Mountains were created when god said: "Let there be mountains!"

Answer 7

Mountains are really the result of jesus hawking a load of phlem upon the earth. They all became mountains.

(For those of you who are insulted by this comment, you SHOULD be aware that there is a native South American tribe that REALLY believes something along this line as well as a now extinct North American tribe!)

Answer 8

Shifting tectonic plates
Volcanic activity

Answer 9

Paul Bunyan and his blue cow Betsy wrestled and made the Rocky mountains

Answer 10

mountains are created from dead english teachers rolling over in their graves when someone butchers the language like you just did. somewhere a mountain is born because of you, pilgrim

Answer 11

how were mountains created? through he shifting of the tectonic plates and the continental drifts. when the continents crashed into each other, it made moutains.