I don't have telescopes strong enough, I have to rely on the word of others, and their potentially doctored images.

[quote]The more things I have to believe to believe the claim and the more it defies common logic[/quote]

Why can't I say anything I want defies common logic? All sorts of scientific knowledge which relies on mathematics far too incomprehensible to me which I cannot understand, for evidence. Am I rational to disbelieve those?