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Quote by: Sonart  .
Well that's just plain silly. I look up and see the moon, night after night after night, so I know that it exists and isn't going anywhere. And knowing what I know from my own eyes, everything I've read about the scientific nature of the moon makes perfect sense and is entirely plausible.
And since I know that I and the people I work with do our jobs sincerely and to the best of our abilities, I have no reason to believe that the people whose job it was to inform us about the moon also did their jobs sincerely and to the best of their abilities, and therefore there's no reason not to believe the recorded science simply because I didn't do it myself.
I've never hit a homerun in Dodger stadium before either, but I know for an absolute fact that it can be done.
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You don' have any reason to not believe them, but a truly skeptical mind wouldn't believe them until you have every reason to believe them. And being close friends is no defense, I've boldfaced lied to my closest friends. You don't see the moon, you see a glowing disk that you've been told is a chunk of rock called the moon. you may have seen a homerun in dodger stadium, so its a little harder to be paranoid about that, but still.