I can't remember if this has been posted here before or not, but I do think it's pertinent to the points raised in this discussion:
From
Man On The Moon--A Colossal Hoax that Cost Billions of Dollars
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....The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched, concluded, and perfect. The Vedas state that the moon is 800,000 miles farther from the earth than the sun. Therefore, even if we accept the modern calculation of 93 million miles as the distance from the earth to the sun, how could the "astronauts" have traveled to the moon--a distance of almost 94 million miles--in only 91 hours (the alleged elapsed time of the Apollo 11 moon trip)? This would require an average speed of more than one million miles per hour for the spacecraft, a patently impossible feat by even the space scientists' calculations.....
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While this is an extreme example, it does show an example of this thing about blackness and whiteness in sharp relief. While the writer is asking valid questions about the authority of the 'presumed' moon landings (i.e. few of us have ever been there, yet we all accept that they happened. I'm not saying that they didn't, just that it's not unreasonable to question whether they happened or not), he is at the same time placing his faith blindly in the authority of his religion. When I see people arguing against one authority, showing that x argument is false, and then turning around and using the same argument to validate their own chosen authority, it makes me blush - but it happens all the time.
It is this authority that stops people asking questions - If philosophy is the love of, or the search for truth, then we must be wary of being seduced by any authorities until we have worn ourselves out by our own relentless searching.