Intelligent Design and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

""Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" --Charles Darwin

This is a prescient summation of the "Dunning-Kruger" Effect, a phenomenon described by the authors of an infamous psychological study that showed (from the original paper's abstract):

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

Few places illustrate this effect better than one of the premier websites of the Intelligent Design Movement, "Uncommon Descent". And it's not just the articles: the comments are almost textbook examples:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/