[thedoc (OP)]

Rod Kirkby  asked the Naked Scientists:
   Hi Chris. I was interested in the Bible-based question, where the seas were said to cover the mountains. As mountains look so permanent, I suspect some bright spark in antiquity noticed sea objects at the tops of mountains, and realised the sea must have, in the past, covered the mountains (just as dinosaur fossils found in antiquity probably gave rise to the concept of dragons). What he or she could not then have known was that it was the mountains which have risen, techtonically, from the sea bed to become some of the highest mountains on the planet, taking sea-bed items with them. I thought that thought might be of interest. Kind Regards Rod Kirkby (former aerospace 'ideas' and 'wood-for-the-trees' man)
   
What do you think?