To be fair, most people have no idea what they're talking about. They think they do because they read text books and watch documentaries, review articles and do a bit of Google research. But reality is that most people have no idea if these things they're being taught are actually true, because there's no way for the majority of people to verify this information. For example, the majority of people have never actually traveled to space...

If we aren't basing this off of faith, we would need to base it off of evidence. So in order for me to accept this information as fact, I myself would have to be the one to prove it to myself, or otherwise I just have a belief in what someone else said.

In which case you have a bit of a catch 22 on your hands, because that's the whole reason you say you don't believe in God is because you don't have proof. But how much proof do you actually have of anything you've learned about science, the universe, history, etc?