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There is an inability for you to rationalize the primary mental processes in which is identical, concentrating only on the secondary principles to claim the superiority in arguments.
People often look back at the Middle Ages as simply shrugging it off as the people who were dumb, yet the mental powers were identical to ours. The difference between the peasants who hung Rosemary in their doorway to prevent the spread of disease is moot compared to the vast majority of people flipping on a lightbulb.
The average person who flips the lightbulb can not tell you the processes which go about to turn it on. They can't tell you why even though the electron moves about a foot a minute, the power is instantaneous. They can't tell you the difference in incandesant and florescent bulbs, or how the energy is converted to light.
They don't understand it beyond what is taught to them.
Sure, they can do experiments to reinforce what is taught, but when it comes down to it all they know (believe) is when electricity is turned on and they flip the switch... the light turns on.
There is this tendency to nod saying "it's reproducible" without following through with it. You mention you can buy a telescope and see both moons around Mars... but I'd bet dollars to dimes you haven't bothered. Your knowledge, until tested, is faith and nothing more.
The truth is I have faith because I've looked at Science's best arguments for how we got here.... and I find it to be a very large and difficult pill to swallow. The billions of billions of coincidences which fell together to have us end up where/how we are is almost as impossible for me to fathom as a greater power is for you.
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"Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas
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