“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

Example: global warming

By way of further example: the religious dogmas now recognized by the author's name.

As true and natural as evolution.

I'm sufficiently confident that my ignorance exceeds my knowlege. Um, I think...

A confident ignorance allows one to oppress others with a good conscience.

The more one knows the less he thinks he knows, as my mother told me so often.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. --George Orwell, 1984.

Neither Darwin nor advocates of natural selection promote any sort of "religious dogma", rather that religated to those who prefer belief systems over rational investigation and general scientific approaches... and those that don't understand this are doomed to live in the dark ages... too bad they piggy back taking advantage of scientific advances while crying about how evil they are...

True. He who shouts loudest probably doesn't know what he is talking about.