In response to [they all "used to believe" that ether means they believed but saw or felt nothing. Or they believe themselves delusional. Its hard to make anyone believe anything if they do not even trust their own senses. The fact that they use those same senses to understand any and all information no matter the source must make for horrible inner conflict]
You should be skeptical of your own senses. There are many situations that demonstrate the fallibility of our senses. Here are some questions that refer to those situations.
What about the people that kill their children because their god told them to? Should they have trusted their senses? Our ability to hallucinate? Doesn't the sun and moon look pretty small just based on your immediate senses? What about fake memory humans are so susceptible to? Why do most people stick with the first door they chose when asked the Monty Hall problem?
This does not mean that there is no way to gain knowledge through the senses. This means that when we use our senses we should be aware of how our own senses may deceive us. Science or natural methodology has developed strategies to filter out deception and self-deception of the senses as much as possible: a control group, double blind experiment, and peer review to name a few strategies.
This reminds me of an earlier post The Nature of Common Sense and Intuition http://the-flying-skeptic.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-nature-of-common-sense-and-intuition.html
Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory: http://youtu.be/PB2OegI6wv
Monty hall problem: http://youtu.be/4Lb-6rxZxx0
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