Beliefs Are A Tricky Thing - 1190 Words

Beliefs are a tricky thing to argue in society today. People’s opinions are drastically different with all the technology and information accessible and anything can be attempted to be proved true or untrue. Throughout history, mythical creatures have been a big idea in the human mind. It started out in fairy tales and novels in the early centuries of time and has transformed greatly into the 21st century. People often see and hear about these un-human-like creatures in movies, books and even the news today. They are vividly shown to be these believable creatures hiding within society. A largely discussed mythological creature is the mermaid. The idea of mermaids has been around for centuries and was a big aspect in fairy tale stories.†¦show more content†¦Most people who believe in mermaids are little girls who love The Little Mermaid movie. There are other movies not as popular like Aquamarine and The Thirteenth Year which were all featured on Disney Channel directe d at a younger, naive audience. Movies like these all involve human and mermaid interaction where the mermaid is portrayed as a beautiful, mysterious woman/girl leading to young girls fantasizing over them and believing that mermaids do exist in society. Scientifically mermaids are impossible to prove to be real because of a few very obvious reasons, starting with the fact that they would freeze to death. Human bodies are not made to survive in the water for a long period of time and could not survive in the deep parts of the ocean where the temperature drops drastically. There is also the fact that they would go extinct because they are only human on the top half, so reproduction is not an option neither is laying eggs. Leading to the fact that they would also be constipated because the digestive processes of fish and mammals are completely different. For example, humans have a large and small intestine and a fish only contain one small intestine. Then, there is the most obvious reason, no one has produced physical evidence ever. Since the early centuries of time people have had this idea of mermaids, but no one has ever physically proved them