Is It the Senses?

All the interesting truths of science essentially are not about what we sense. The big bang, evolution by natural selection and germ theory can be known without us ever needing to see directly any of them. It's always explaining the sene in terms of the unseen, which is an amazing part of epistemology. So he takes knowledge, creation and criticism away from whatever your fallible senses are up to,. And puts it in a domain of explanation.