How do Atheists explain The Bermuda Triangle?

Question

Or is it bad to admit that there are some phenomena in the world that science cannot explain, but there IS evidence that something unusual is happening?

Is it human nature to NEED to have a logical explanation to all things even if it beyond man's and science's ability?

Answer 1

Thousands of years ago into the past..... it was already explained on the History Channel, dozens of movies and other documentaries.



The "Bermuda Triangle" is a result of methane gas causing bubbles under ships, bubbles, as you may or may not know, can cause a ship to capsize. And the electromagnetic waves from the methane can easily throw an airplane off course or cause it to crash.

Answer 2

First off, science cannot explain many things, but stuff are being explained and discovered even as of now. Just because, there isn't an explanation yet, it's all unexplainable is a totally wrong approach. Classifying of beliefs on the basis of theism or atheism or you even asking this question suggests that you want to know the reason why atheists aren't believers. You're just contradicting yourself. You say believers don't need logical explanations for everything, but you still desire answers. Why not just leave the bermuda triangle and atheists alone? Why not just believe that if the existence of the Bermuda triangle is irrational, so is the existence of atheism? Do you have to know the reason why we are atheists? If you have to know the reason, then you aren't a true believer of God either.



On another note, why the Bermuda triangle of all the unexplainable things? I mean how is the existence of the universe itself clearly defined by science? There are soooo many things unexplained, and that's what science exists to do so. You really are ignorant.

Answer 3

I don't think that actual evidence exists proving anything about the triangle. Unless of course you want to talk about statistical data. In that case there are many places in the world's oceans where an unusual number of ships and planes "disappear". The triangle is a popular subject because it's so widely reported on and written about. But to your question, atheists don't say that existing science explains all natural phenomena. Given all the variables science is capable of explaining anything, it's just that in many cases all the variables aren't known. Humans generally do want explanations for the world and universe around. This is the main reason religion exists. People with limited understanding needing explanations for life, came up with something supernatural to account for everything in nature. Yes that's very primitive.

Answer 4

What you're quite affirming is that you quite don't recognize why the Bermuda Triangle is how this is, you have not got here across any clinical rationalization so therefor it must be supernatural and a god must be in touch. So in short you assert i don't recognize why or how so it ought to propose that goddidit! it really is unintelligent and ignorant! All religions that recognize of do believe in a god or gods yet they don't all believe interior a similar god or gods so how is this data of something??? once you ask a question you do not get to inform human beings how they could or can not answer it!

Answer 5

Believing in G/god(s) has nothing to do with believing in paranormal phenomenon.



That being said, there is nothing to explain. The Bermuda Triangle encompasses half a million square miles and contains some of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes on Earth. Ships and planes are occasionally lost at sea in this area, but not at a higher rate than any other high-traffic deepwater area.

Answer 6

I'm not Atheist, so I can't speak for them. But having faith that science can explain everything is ridiculous. If that was true, than someone would be the richest person in the world for explaining everything that occurs, and showing proof of it. Hasn't happened yet. The logical conclusion is this: There is more going on than what we can perceive. There is also stuff that humans can possibly never know. However, placing God in this "gap" of knowledge isn't helping anything.

:D

Answer 7

Surprisingly, usually the same as Creationists do.



1. That it's all just over-active imaginations. The statistics show know alarming difference between the Bermuda triangle and any other popular flight path.

2. There is a large amount of methane pockets in that area. These are known to have caused the sinking of ships and may cause air planes to drop, possibly to the point of crashing.

Answer 8

An open stretch of ocean in the tropics, defined by the adjacent land coasts of Florida, Puerto Rico and the island of Bermuda, in which several wind and water currents intersect, and where severe storms commonly occur.

Answer 9

How many accidents happened OUTSIDE of the Bermuda Triangle? My guess is 20 times more than what has happened inside of the BT.

Answer 10

First of all, atheists simply don't believe in any gods. Let's presume you are referring to atheists with some experience or inclination to answer, however.



Given the quite predictable storms in the that area, the region has no more "unusual" disappearances than any other region with like amounts of storm or hazard. Many ships have been found there on the bottom, but it's a huge area, so there are undoubtedly many more to be found that can still be counted as "mysterious" disappearances by anyone gullible enough to believe it.



Edit: I lol'ed at your added details. ;)

Answer 11

Actually, the Bermuda Triangle doesn't have any more or fewer 'incidents' than any other comparable area.



The fact that it is notable shows that the human mind seeks out patterns and is liable to attribute supernatural explanations to things they can't explain.





And, as science usually does, it has found that methane could be the culprit in some of the shipwrecks and magnetic anomalies may account for aircraft being lost.



(There are many places in the world where the Earth's magnetic field is irregular. Off the top of my head I know that the coast of Maine has one too.

It's actually denoted on aviation charts.)



Most of the aircraft disappearances happened before more modern navigation systems were developed and the magnetic compass was the only directional instrument available.

Not surprisingly, the introduction of radio navigation, inertial navigation, and GPS systems seems to have ended any problems for aircraft transiting the area.

Answer 12

Atheist, but I do believe something is going on there. Just don't know what exactly. Maybe I've watched too much Star Trek, but I wouldn't rule out some sort of dimensional rift.

Answer 13

They don't bother because despite the stigma on it, ships are no more likely to be lost there than anywhere else.

Answer 14

It's a particularly treacherous stretch of ocean. There are lots of those.

Answer 15

magnetism is easily explained. Why it does what it does right there can be duplicated in a lab.

Answer 16

It's where the north pole was before the gravitational axis shifted.



That would be the logical assumption at least.

Answer 17

We don't NEED to make things up...yes we search for answers, but when don't find the answer do we make something up to explain it? or do we keep searching?

Answer 18

Is there?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_triangle

Answer 19

Good grief I'm Christian and I know the Bermuda Triangle is nonsense.

Answer 20

I wasn't under the impression that I needed to explain old wives' tales.

Answer 21

How do Christians?

Answer 22

well why don't you show us this evidence that something weird is happening there

Answer 23

I don't know what's up with the bermuda triangle but, I'm not just gonna assume that just because *I* don't understand it, that god did it...

Answer 24

So everything we can't explain can be attributed to god?

Answer 25

I'll respond when I stop laughing.

Answer 26

Why? Is swimming there bad?

Answer 27

Conspiracy