Mermaids by Ryan

Are Mermaids Real?

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 15:50:51 UTC

Claim

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 15:52:45 UTC

The claim that states that mermaids are real is false

Set Up

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 15:55:05 UTC

In the documentry by Animal Planet, the inferences made outweighed the evidence gathered.

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-25 15:55:13 UTC

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 16:12:37 UTC

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-25 16:15:08 UTC

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 16:16:18 UTC

For our purposes, positive is a symbol for inferences and negaitve equals evidence.

Evidence #2

padraig_loftus — 2015-09-25 16:18:37 UTC

Furthermore, to automatically say that the unfamiliar sound was a mermaid is stretching too far. Although it was compelling evidence that there was a new and intricate call, it could have been a multitude of unknown animals or an animal's call that has not yet been studied.

Tie in

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-28 18:40:10 UTC

Generally speaking, when there is no evidence to support the existence of a new species and no explanation to the creation of that animal, then it does not exist.

Evidence #1

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-28 18:44:19 UTC

To start, the scientists stated that there was a body found on the beach after a vast amount of whales showed up on shore with not much explanation other than the fact that the Navy was conducting sonar testing. The experiments, the scientists assumed, caused the whales to relocate. This eventually led to the whales suffocating in the shallow waters and washing up to the beach not much later.

Evidence #5

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-28 23:04:45 UTC

At the end of the video on the bottom of the screen, it displays in small, white print that the video was fake and was created for amusement purposes only. This is the evidence that puts all the information towards the existence of mermaids negligible.

Evidence #3

james_l_riddle — 2015-09-29 00:45:54 UTC

Another reason why mermaids can not exist is because there is no way for the species from two different animal classes to reproduce to create a 'mutant' which is both mammal and fish.

Evidence #4

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-29 02:19:09 UTC

The last piece of evidence disproving the existence of mermaids is that the theory of evolution from primates offered by the researchers is impossible. If one massive event caused large areas to fill with water, as the documentary suggests, said beings would drown and die, not instantly sprout features akin to mermaids and survive the flood.

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Counter Claim

ryan_hughes — 2015-09-29 15:40:58 UTC

Although no sufficient evidence has been discovered supporting the existence of mermaids, there is still a possibility that there are unknown species living in the parts of the ocean not yet explored. Mermaids may still be hiding in the deep depths of the ocean. But for right now, we feel that they do not exist.