What I am arguing about is the means of how things operate and I ask questions about those means.
For instance, rockets in a vacuum.
Lumps of metal smashed together can blow up cities.
I question things and I am sceptical about things, until I am satisfied that I am wrong or the odds are stacked against me.
At this moment in time, I haven't changed my stance and I'm probably more convinced of fabrication if the truth be known.
Science is the result of people questioning and being sceptical about things, it didn't just spring fully formed one day from the mind of Steven Hawking. If you read up on the history of our scientific progress you'll realize that it's a true progression from knowing really nothing but what our own senses tell us to being able to draw some pretty powerful conclusions about how our world works. Accepted scientific theories seriously aren't just scientists making things up, and while it's debatable as to whether we can
know if any of them are true, we can confidently use them because they are consistent with each other and they make astounding predictions about natural phenomena, often before we can actually observe them.
Let me give you an example: the search for DNA, a molecule that we can observe with our own eyes, was driven by the knowledge that there must be some biochemical means of storing genes, which we know exist because of Mendel's
observations and we know must evolve because of Darwin's
observations, which were corroborated with fossil evidence that also predicted continental drift, a theory that arose to explain
obervations about the shape of Earth's continents. All of these relatively diverse theories can make predictions about one another. Could they be wrong? Possibly. But with every new piece of data that fits with accepted explanations, that becomes less and less likely.
There's a difference between healthy skepticism and rejecting scientific theory because it is difficult or because you mistrust scientists (which, if you have ever met a real scientist, is a ridiculous proposition). Science
is difficult and complex, but that doesn't make it elitist — it just means that scientists are doing their jobs. In fact, most of our theories are a result of healthy skepticism; questions about retrograde motion brought us heliocentrism, blackbody radiation brought us quantum theory, trying to reconcile EMF theory and Newtonian mechanics brought us relativity, observations about diseases brought us germ theory, the list goes on. The beauty of science isn't that we can come up with nice-sounding ideas about how the world works, because in reality the details are usually horribly complex and can take centuries to work out. The beauty is that our best ideas are all consistent with each other, and can be used to make predictions and draw conclusions about the world, improve human lives, and provide a framework to ask new questions and test new ideas. It's a beautiful process, frankly one of the best things a human being can be part of, and if you can't see this beauty I honestly feel sad for you.