(September 17, 2022 at 7:55 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(September 17, 2022 at 4:03 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: I think you mean seeing things with your own eyes and refusing to doubt your own experiences when in-adequate evidence is presented to the contrary.
Again I ask, is it possible to observe a full moon at midnight?
Yes.
What you *cannot* do is observe a crescent moon at midnight (except during an eclipse), or a full moon at noon.You also cannot observe a waxing quarter moon just before sunrise or a waning quarter moon just after sundown.
No,w how is this relevant to anything?
One time Galileo tried to show a Roman prelate a waxing Venus, and explained that it could only be waxing if it was on the opposite side of a central sun from the Earth, and the prelate showed him the instruments of pain in the basement and said, "Capisce?"