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However if by "mermaid" we mean the aquatic humanoid than no. The ocean is vast, but not limitless. Further if they are considered a creature than they would probably need a natural explanation and I don't think they make sense naturally. A humanoid form of marine mammal would likely look much different than the mermaid image. Possibly something like a Selkie, seal-person, but even that seems hard to justify in natural terms.
If it's supernatural you would need a supernatural explanation or justification. There does seem to be some ancient religions that believed gods or demigods that were mermaids or took a mer form. But I'm not a polytheist. Granted some early Christians believed the gods existed, sort of, as angels or demons. So it's possible an angel could take the appearance of a mermaid, but this would get us back to mermaids not existing in themselves except as a form an angel takes.
Mermaids don't really answer any question, metaphysical or natural, that I can see so aren't even entirely analogous to other things believed in. That being said they do have some value, perhaps, as a kind of "proto-alien." I'm reading Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn, a novel of Medieval people meeting extraterrestrials, and the belief in "other humanoids" maybe gets to some reconciliation of extraterrestrials with Christianity.
Pretty ridiculous to believe in something for which there is zero evidence, just a bunch of old stories.
Pretty ridiculous to not believe in something for which there is zero evidence of.
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