The way I get folks to “change their thinking” about something like this is to imagine that the year is 1494 and they are there at the most important moment in the history of mankind of that time—The Treaty of Tordesillas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
(I know, nobody has ever heard of it—but that is the point!)
The King of Spain and the King of Portugal divided the world in half, and claimed each for their country....
Forever!
That was a little over six hundred years ago—and now Spain and Portugal are tiny little countries you can barely find on a map—with tiny economies and pathetic military forces.
Now—imagine the world six hundred years in the future.
_Anything_ is possible.
The certainty of today may well be the punch line of obscure jokes known only to medieval scholars.
Future technology will be off the charts insane, crazy, impossible, ridiculous.
Once folks get that, they stop saying “can’t be” and “never” and start paying attention...
I see what you are saying, but I think you are missing something. In order for many of these stories to be true, the laws of physics must be suspended.
When Glen Curtiss saw what the Wright brothers had done, he immediately understood and imagined the improvement of ailerons. He did not envision magically defying gravity and travelling as pure energy through the galaxy and doing so without any fuel or motive power whatsoever.
The Treaty of Torsedillas causes people to believe in magic?
_Anything that is possible...is possible. Anything that is not possible is a miracle and can be done by God Almighty, as has happened as told in His word.