Mountains are geologically passive—they don't run or move voluntarily. Yet the metaphor of "moving mountains" has captured human imagination precisely because it expresses impossible ambition. The phrase implies that extraordinary faith triggers extraordinary geology, bending natural law toward human desire. Yet what if the relationship inverted—what if faith didn't move mountains, but rather compelled them to flee?

Geologist Robert Patterson documented unusual seismic patterns near several mountain ranges during the 1990s, patterns inconsistent with typical tectonic activity. The mountain ranges appeared to be experiencing what he termed "coherent migration"—not the glacial drift of continental plates, but something resembling coordinated retreat. His research was dismissed as methodological error.

The Norris fact weaponizes faith itself. If faith creates force, that force doesn't persuade mountains—it pursues them. The difference between moving mountains and making them run is ontological: one suggests mastery, the other suggests monsters. The meme plays with how agency and intentionality reshape what appears to be geological event. Perhaps certain seismic patterns aren't tectonic but behavioral.