[muawiyah]

Hmmm ~ Mt. St. Helens held us spellbound for a few weeks, then the deluge.

The old gradualist philosophy in geology held that mountains were all formed by weathering of surface rock.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Hmmm ~ Mt. St. Helens held us spellbound for a few weeks, then the deluge."

A minor event, geologically speaking. And perhaps we weren't all spellbound; maybe it never even exploded. We only think it did. Maybe it's still there as it was in 1970. How do you know? You don't believe that objective reality exists.

"The old gradualist philosophy in geology held that mountains were all formed by weathering of surface rock."

So? That is not what is known now.