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Did mermen ever really exist?

JoeMorgue said:
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Mermaids don't exist. They never existed. This is not an argument we should be have with an ostensibly grown person in 2018.
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Except you're actually conversing with a dude/dudette who probably reads way too much Harry Potter and spends a lot of time on Ebay purchasing sequins for costumes intended for RPG nights at Sue's house on Friday evenings after UFO-sighting seminars in the local Starbucks with Fred and Angela from Poetry Club.

Some folks have to find some way to kill time between snacks, why not make up whole swathes of bollocks and pretend to have some point for the sheer halibut?

Vixen 2018: Killing Time - the Story of One Person's Battle Against Boredom in A Shrinking World.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Again all Vixen's done is somehow make yet another version of the Garage Dragon / Teapot argument... yet not realize it.
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He/she totally realizes it. But, admitting to realization is basically turning on the lights and effectively ending the game, and that's no fun, ergo: thread continues.
 
Gilbert Syndrome said:
Except you're actually conversing with a dude/dudette who probably reads way too much Harry Potter and spends a lot of time on Ebay purchasing sequins for costumes intended for RPG nights at Sue's house on Friday evenings after UFO-sighting seminars in the local Starbucks with Fred and Angela from Poetry Club.

Some folks have to find some way to kill time between snacks, why not make up whole swathes of bollocks and pretend to have some point for the sheer halibut?

Vixen 2018: Killing Time - the Story of One Person's Battle Against Boredom in A Shrinking World.
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You would be wrong. I hate Harry Potter, I have never dressed up in a Halloween costume, can't stand Dan Brown. UFO's? I'd love to spend time in Joshua Tree desert, just for the buzz. I love poetry.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, GS, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


You must be one of those people who only believes what you are told to believe.
 
Vixen said:
You would be wrong. I hate Harry Potter, I have never dressed up in a Halloween costume, can't stand Dan Brown. UFO's? I'd love to spend time in Joshua Tree desert, just for the buzz. I love poetry.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, GS, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


You must be one of those people who only believes what you are told to believe.
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It's OK to ask whether merpeople could have existed - after all it requires some knowledge of biology to realise that they couldn't. However to keep arguing that it is plausible after being informed of this means that you can't get to lecture anyone on what to believe or even consider vaguely possible, if implausible.
 
jimbob said:
It's OK to ask whether merpeople could have existed - after all it requires some knowledge of biology to realise that they couldn't. However to keep arguing that it is plausible after being informed of this means that you can't get to lecture anyone on what to believe or even consider vaguely possible, if implausible.
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Biologically impossible? How do you explain mammals that spend all their time in the sea and nor do they have legs. So biologically possible after all.
 
Vixen said:
Biologically impossible? How do you explain mammals that spend all their time in the sea and nor do they have legs. So biologically possible after all.
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Great. Let's isolate a group of 1000 convicts on a small island and eventually some of their descendants might develop webbed appendages, then eventually some of the stronger swimmers down the line gain flippers, or at least paddles.
 
Vixen said:
Biologically impossible? How do you explain mammals that spend all their time in the sea and nor do they have legs. So biologically possible after all.
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Merfolk aren't whales, nor are they seals. They are chimeras with the top half of a human and the bottom half of a fish. This is biologically impossible.
 
At least two places not far from me have carvings of what I guess would be anti-mermaids: Bottom half of a guy and top half of a fish. Equally likely as the usual kind.
 
Venom said:
Great. Let's isolate a group of 1000 convicts on a small island and eventually some of their descendants might develop webbed appendages, then eventually some of the stronger swimmers down the line gain flippers, or at least paddles.
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We tried that with Australia (OK a big island) and given their success in swimming
competitions perhaps you're right! (And given the tendency for pigmyism on islands perhaps a race of small folk, lets call them halflings, will evolve in New Zealand. Whatever happened to the wizard of Christchurch?)
 
arthwollipot said:
Merfolk aren't whales, nor are they seals. They are chimeras with the top half of a human and the bottom half of a fish. This is biologically impossible.
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Just because various artists have drawn artistic impressions of a mermaid looking like Bridget Bardot (top half) and a scaly green fish' tail the bottom half, does not mean we have to accept their interpretation of what a mermaid is.

It they ever existed, it would likely be the male is the fancy one and the female plain.
 
Vixen said:
.......It they ever existed, it would likely be the male is the fancy one and the female plain.
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You really should join Bigfoot Forums. There are people there who will tell you every single last detail about the biology of animals which don't exist.
 
Vixen said:
Biologically impossible? How do you explain mammals that spend all their time in the sea and nor do they have legs. So biologically possible after all.
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Can you point to any living creature which is half in one genus, and half in another?

Why not?
 
Vixen said:
Just because various artists have drawn artistic impressions of a mermaid looking like Bridget Bardot (top half) and a scaly green fish' tail the bottom half, does not mean we have to accept their interpretation of what a mermaid is.
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If not that, then what exactly is it that you are claiming existed?
 
'Mermaids are likely, because we have artist's impressions of what they look like.'

'Those don't make sense biologically.'

'Well, why would you expect them to look like the artisic impressions?'

This tendency you have to bluster from dodge to dodge in order to avoid ever having to admit an error has the strange side effect that you keep refuting your earlier arguments...
 
Vixen said:
A sea creature that looked like a human from a distance.
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As already pointed, out, any number of sea creatures fit that, depending on weather conditions, levels of alcohol consumed and how long since the crew last saw a live female human.

There are many explanations for tales of mermaids. That's not at all the same as saying mermaids existed.
 
MikeG said:
Can you point to any living creature which is half in one genus, and half in another?

Why not?
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Sea-horse, dragon-fly, saw-fish, sword-fish, star-fish and duck billed platty-puss.
Besides explain unicorns evolving into narwhales. I bet you can't! Check. Your move skeptic.
 
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