Christie Aschwanden

Christie Aschwanden is cited in Faith is Not Blind as a science writer whose framing of how science works parallels the book’s argument about faith and certainty. Per the highlight, she says science “can increase or decrease our confidence in some propositions, but it can’t produce ‘absolute certainty.’ Instead, ‘it’s a process of uncertainty reduction.’” In the Hafens’ argument this maps onto science as a model for honest belief — a posture that reduces uncertainty without demanding proof, tagged in Kyle’s notes under Gospel Study.

Context: Christie Aschwanden is an American science journalist, formerly lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and author of Good to Go, known for writing on statistics, uncertainty, and the limits of scientific certainty.

Where this appears

• Faith is Not Blind — quoted on science as “a process of uncertainty reduction” rather than a source of absolute certainty