Firmly planted. He's the hardest type of idiot to convince because he knows of smart things, but doesn't know how to apply them appropriate. Like the inverse square law of light. Sounds super fucking smart. And then he says that explains why the moon can't exist, but he ignores the visual perception aspect of it that you see all the light of the earth facing side of the moon at once and if you're looking down at the moon whilst standing on it you're only seeing like 12 square feet which is way less bright than the full surface of the fucking moon.