Why Don’t My Fellow Christians Believe I walked on the Moon? - Charlie Duke

So this is going back to something earlier you had mentioned, um, but you know, there are a lot of people out there who think, "Oh, man never went to the moon." That's, that's all a big lie. But I've heard a lot of Christians say that too, some people that I know as well.

How does that make you feel when fellow believers in Christ would doubt your experience? Like, does that bother you or is it not a big deal? Well, on, on YouTube and, uh, Facebook, I get called, "You liar." I get, you know, you didn't walk on the moon. Well, the, uh, they're willfully ignorant because the evidence is clear that we walked on the moon. We had six landings, and you can see the spacecraft on the moon from the LRO photographs.

And I said, "Why don't you believe it?" He said, "Well, I just don't believe it." They can't give me a, they can't give me a sound reason why they don't believe it. They just don't believe it. And they, they are ignoring the evidence. And with the evidence, and you, if you see the evidence and you still don't believe it, you're willfully ignorant. And, uh, so I don't use that word. I mostly, uh, you know, face to face, but, uh, the, the evidence is there. I mean, why did we fake it six times?

And how can 400,000 people, 400,000 people keep a secret for 50 years? Well, and for you to have such an incredible testimony of what Christ has done in your life, for someone to say it's all a, a hoax, they would have to believe, you know, like, let's say they're a fellow Christian, they would have to say that, like, they would have to call you a liar as, as a fellow believer in Christ. And that seems to me a, a very, um, that, that, that doesn't, that really bothers me, actually.

Well, I got, I was just recently looking at, uh, comments on, uh, Facebook, and it says, "What, when, when are you gonna stop lying? You know, you're, you're a Christian and you're lying. You never walked, nobody ever walked on the moon."

And I don't respond to that too much, but, uh, the, uh, if I wrote them back, I said, "Why don't you believe it? Look at the evidence." And, uh, the evidence is clear. Uh, you know, I was on Glenn Beck's show, uh, about a year ago, and, uh, and, uh, he says, uh, "Who took the picture?" He asked the question, "Who, who took Armstrong's picture when he stepped onto the moon?"

There was nobody, who was holding the camera?

So I explained it to him. He said, "When he came down the ladder to the left, there's a, a, a segment of the moon, the vehicle called the Modular Equipment Storage Assembly." And, and he, he pulled the handle to release that, and that popped open. Well, in there was a camera.

And when the thing popped open, mission control turned it on. So there was a camera pointing at the, at the footpad, and it was there. And so that was the, the signal. And that was the first live, uh, uh, picture you had from the moon from this remote camera. And then once they got off, both of them got outside, they took the camera out of the, of the storage and set it up on a tripod. And, uh, it had enough power in it, and they just sent signals. They adjusted the antenna, and they sent signals back, uh, through the lunar module or where, however, to Earth. And so they had a camera that they, it was fixed on a tripod.

When we, we had a camera on our rover that they could control. They could zoom it in and out. They could up and down and, uh, elevate it. They could go, uh, panorama. And, uh, all we did was adjust the antenna on the rover to the Earth and turned it on, the camera on, and they took control of it. And, uh, it was amazing, you know? And, uh, so. See, I think, yeah, 'cause it, it does bother me when, when some of these people are, you know, they're Christians or that, you know, and, and yet they would still say, "Oh, you, you didn't do it, but yet you're a Christian as well." And that seems a pretty serious accusation, you know, against, and that's why I wanted to ask that question, um, just for those people that are listening who might think that, you know, and, um, and then to hear your testimony of Christ.

Yeah, I, I would hope that, that they would, they wouldn't get so derailed calling you a liar that they miss your testimony because they, you know, you have a real powerful testimony here. Yeah. Well, again, they, they don't, they have ignored the evidence. I mean, 600 pounds of moon rocks, and they're totally, they're totally different from, and, and the pictures that we took, clear pictures, all the way to the horizon, looking up at the sky. And one of the three said, "Well, the sky's black and there's no stars up there." So it was done in a, well, dummy the sun shining.

That's hilarious, actually. Like, right now it's daylight while we're recording this, and I can't see stars in the sky. You're right. Wow. And sunshine. And the, the sky's, the sky's black on the moon when the sun's shining because there's no atmosphere up there.

So the sky's black. It's not a blue sky. It's not an orange sky like in Mars, you know?