This is how knowledge builds. We move from naming, to categorizing, to modeling, to theorizing—each step increasing our ability to explain the world. A rock stops being just a rock. It becomes a record of processes, conditions, and ultimately cosmic history—traced back to ancient stars that existed long before us. At a certain point, this creates a powerful assumption: that if we keep going, everything will eventually be explained. That reality is fully knowable, and every phenomenon has a material explanation waiting to be discovered. In many ways, we didn’t lose faith—we replaced it. The belief in an all-seeing God became a belief in an all-explaining system. From the first episode of Inquiry with Kelly Chase: How to Inquire: What UFOs & Anomalous Experience Can Teach Us About Epistemic Collapse Available wherever you listen to podcasts. #epistemology #science #truth #consciousness #philosophy #criticalthinking #materialism #cosmos #signalcraft #deepdive #fyp #foryou #foryoupage