Confidence is a feeling you get when you don't REALLY understand the situation. - James P. Hogan

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.

"Esto es una selva donde nos despedazamos todos: sólo sobreviven los más fuertes y los débiles se destruyen".

-La Máquina Génesis.

Scientists don't frighten me. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore MISdirectable lines. It's children and conjurers who frighten me. Against scientists, I feel quite confident.