is there a scientific explanation for everything?

Question

sailors thought that the sea in bermuda triangle opened and swallowed the ship. now we know that there is just a lot of methane releasing and bubbles doesnt provides adequate buoyancy for ships, so they sink.

are there also scientific explanations for religions?

Answer 1

No. Not yet.

Answer 2

>is there a scientific explanation for everything?

Probably, yes. And if not...well, the Universe would probably look like a very different place if that were the case.

>now we know that there is just a lot of methane releasing and bubbles doesnt provides adequate buoyancy for ships, so they sink.

That's one theory, but I don't know that it has been substantiated yet. Anyway, the rate of ship losses is not actually any higher in the Bermuda Triangle than it is in any other part of the world, so the point is rather moot.

>are there also scientific explanations for religions?

Yes.

Answer 3

Clearly there is not (yet) a scientific explanation for everything. However, experience tells us that as long as we keep applying the scientific method, we will probably continue to get reasonable explanations for all things.

In your question, you make some claim about methane in the Bermuda Triangle. I don't know where you heard this, but there's no evidence that the levels of methane there have ever caused problems for any ship. In fact, the rate of ships sinking in the Bermuda Triangle is what would be expected given weather conditions there and the amount of shipping that passes through the region.

Answer 4

Isaiah 40:22 There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell,

The bible had in it that the earth was a circle, long before Christapher Columbus set sail and prove to humans it was round

And over 3,000 years before the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton explained that the planets are held in empty space by gravity, the Bible poetically stated that ‘the earth is hanging upon nothing.’ (Job 26:7)

Consider also this poetic description of the earth’s water cycle, recorded some 3,000 years ago: “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.” (Ecclesiastes 1:7, New International Version) Yes, the Creator of the universe is also the Author of the Bible.

Answer 5

Heisenberg's Uncertainty principal proved that to observe an experiment is to change it. To "observe" a particle, one must bounce something smaller off it like a photon, or a neutron, to give a reading. This changes the path of the particle, meaning that some things cannot be predicted with absolute certainty. This really ruined Einstein's theory that everything could be determined and near his death, he took back his famous quote "God does not play dice".

Religions have a socialogical definition as a method of controlling people in order to prevent anarchy, but this is debatable and wholly unprovable.

Religious phenomena are often explained by our current knowledge, such as, When Jesus fed the five thousand they were in a part of the desert where a certain bush grows. This bush bears a fruit with a strange spongey texture and in the local Aromaic dialect it was referred to as the "bread bush". This has been used to explain how Jesus fed all the people.

Similarly, parts of the Red Sea, during certain times of the year, are shallow enough to walk across, explaining Moses' miracle.

Many writers have explained supernatural phenomena with science, like Arthur C Clarke and Lyall Watson. See what you think.

Bear in mind that Quantum Physics, which has allowed us to build rockets, space-stations and particle accelarators, revolves around an equation which uses the square root of minus one.

There is no such thing as the square root of minus one.

Answer 6

Do you mean at this moment? People answering are all over the place because you didn't define what you mean.

At the moment of course there is no scientific explanation for everything because we don't even have a grasp of what 'everything' is to even begin.

But science fully admits it doesn't have all of the answers. But there are new answers every day. And not having an answer leads people in one of two directions. An acceptance and a search for answers or a refusal to accept and the creation of an answer.

There is little doubt that the human desire for answers has led to both science and religion. However where they get their answer is based on whether they can accept ambiguity or not.

Answer 7

Yes, but we can't prove everything, they are just logical and probably theories as to why things happen.

Religion is the creation of man. The explanation for that is that humans want a higher being as a mechanism to instill fear, good morality, etc. in others or themselves.

Answer 8

No, however, for things that are unexplained, you can just leave them as unexplained and eventually there may be a scientific explanation down the road. No need to jump to conclusions just because there isn't currently an explanation for something.

Answer 9

Is that explanation not the same, does the sea not open up and swallow up ships? If you are on the ship are you any less dead? regardless of why you are at the bottom?

Answer 10

I don't believe so. I agree with and like science very much, but I believe the scientific method has its limits. Science also has many blind spots, like in the case of ball lightning and the existence of meteors, which where at one time disputed by scientists, even though they were later to be proven as true.

Answer 11

No and its impossible to disprove the theory of a higher being so it wont be. but some aspects of religion can and have been disproven. religious beliefs have changed dramatically over the years. the idea of a heliocentric solar system (sun is the center) was originaaly shunned by christianity